CIRCUMFERENTIAL • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Circumferential

... equality of distance from all the boundaries of the universe; that the fixed stars and planets revolved round it, each being fastened to a crystalline ring; and beyond them, in like manner, the moon, and, still farther off, the sun. He conceived of an opposition between the central and circumferential regions, the former being naturally cold, and the latter hot; indeed, in his opinion, the settling of the cold parts to the centre, and the ascending of the hot, gave origin, respectively, to the formation of the earth and shining ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper