earth-inertia

Updated: May 14, 2025

I had suddenly been cut adrift from matter: all that was material of me was there upon earth, whirling away through space, held to the earth by gravitation, partaking of the earth-inertia, moving in its wreath of epicycles round the sun, and with the sun and the planets on their vast march through space.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories