In Science and Science Fiction
In several modern Romance languages, terra (or French terre) is the name of planet Earth. Many science fiction authors call the planet Terra, following post-classical Latin astronomical terminology. In Warhammer 40,000 this is taken a step further, with Earth being referred to as Holy Terra. The term Terran is used by Philip K. Dick in many of his short stories. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Solar System is called the Terran system.
Authors who have used Tellus include C. S. Lewis in his Space Trilogy; E. E. Smith in his Lensman series; and Robert A. Heinlein in several of the stories in his Future History sequence. The chemical element Tellurium was named after Tellus by Martin Heinrich Klaproth in 1798.
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