World around
World-around is a term coined by
Buckminster Fuller to replace
worldwide. The current scientific view is that the
earth is roughly a
spheroid, so
wide has no meaning when applied to the earth's surface. It has
area and encloses a
volume, but has no width. Fuller held that unthinking use of obsolete scientific ideas detracts from and misleads intuition.
Sunsight and
sunclipse are other neologisms that Fuller coined to replace
sunrise and
sunset in order to overturn the geocentric bias of most pre-
Copernican celestial mechanics.