"Oblateness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... established, at least rendered so highly probable that it is a generally admitted geological doctrine. Let us look first at the astronomical attributes of this once molten globe. From its rotation there result the oblateness of its form, the alternations of day and night, and (under the influence of the moon) the tides, aqueous and atmospheric. From the inclination of its axis, there result the precession of the equinoxes and the many differences of the seasons, both simultaneous and successive, that pervade ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer
... head. "See how perfectly round she is? No oblateness whatever. It proves that she once revolved, otherwise she'd be ...
— The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life • Homer Eon Flint
... Cassini of the oblateness of the planet Jupiter.—Discovery by Newton of the oblateness of the Earth.—Deduction that she has been modeled by mechanical causes.—Confirmation of this by geological discoveries respecting aqueous rocks; corroboration by organic remains.— The necessity ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper |
