Editing Counter-Earth (section)

===Later===
In the 1st century AD, after the idea of a spherical Earth had gained more general acceptance, [[Pomponius Mela]], a Latin cosmographer, developed an updated version of the idea, wherein a [[spherical Earth]] must have a more or less balanced distribution of land and water, even though all known continents were in the northern hemisphere. Mela drew a map which postulated a continental landmass in the unknown, southern half of Earth—the [[Antipodes#Historical significance|antipodes]]—below the equator and the tropics, [[clime]]s which he believed uninhabitable and impassably hot. Mela ascribed the name "[[Antichthones]]" to the inhabitants of this continent.<ref>Pomponius Mela. ''de Chorographia''.</ref>