Excerpt from Physical Geography: For Use in Science Classes and Higher and Middle Class Schools
Form of the Earth - The form of the Earth is nearly that of a globe or sphere - not being perfectly round, but compressed or flattened on two Opposite Sides, somewhat like an orange.
Such a figure is termed an oblate spheroid. The inhabitants of the globe, on the opposite side from us.
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