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267: 34: 297: 174:, which represents the shape having the lowest potential energy for a rotating, fluid body. This ellipsoid is slightly fatter around the equator than a perfect sphere would be. Earth's shape is also slightly lumpy because it is composed of different materials of different densities that exert slightly different amounts of gravitational force per volume. 569:
These include the visibility of distant objects on Earth's surface; lunar eclipses; appearance of the Moon; observation of the sky from a certain altitude; observation of certain fixed stars from different locations; observing the Sun; surface navigation; grid distortion on a spherical surface;
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A sphere is the only stable shape for a non-rotating, gravitationally self-attracting liquid. The outward acceleration caused by Earth's rotation is greater at the equator than at the poles (where is it zero), so the sphere gets deformed into an
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The spherical shape of the Earth was known and measured by astronomers, mathematicians, and navigators from a variety of literate ancient cultures, including the Hellenic World, and Ancient India. Greek ethnographer
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Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian; being a translation of the fragments of the Indika of Megasthenês collected by Dr. Schwanbeck, and of the first part of the Indika of Arrian
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Earth undulates as the shape of its lowest potential energy changes daily due to the gravity of the Sun and Moon as they move around with respect to Earth. This is what causes
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Geodesy is primarily concerned with positioning and the gravity field and geometrical aspects of their temporal variations, although it can also include the study of Earth's
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The liquidity of a hot, newly formed planet allows heavier elements to sink down to the middle and forces lighter elements closer to the surface, a process known as
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provided direct evidence. Improvements in transportation and other technologies refined estimations of the size of the Earth, and helped spread knowledge of it.
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Jamil, Jamil (2009). "Astronomy". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.).
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measured Earth more accurately, the shape of the geoid was first found not to be a perfect sphere but to approximate an
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The earliest documented mention of the concept dates from around the 5th century BC, when it appears in the writings of
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Materialien und Dokumente zur mittelalterlichen Erdkugeltheorie von der Spätantike bis zur Kolumbusfahrt (1492)
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also had a greater proportion of radioactive elements than Earth today because, over time, those elements
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and surrounding ridges. However, if the energy release from these processes halts, then they tend to
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artistic representation of a spherical Earth – with compartments representing
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Science and Civilization in China: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
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maintains its roughly spherical shape. Most of its deviation from spherical stems from the
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away over time and return toward the lowest potential-energy curve of the ellipsoid.
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of the planet is still hot enough to remain liquid. Energy is still being released;
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Early Astronomy and Cosmology: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Cosmic System, Etc
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Pigafetta, Antonio (1906). Magellan's Voyage around the World. Arthur A. Clark.
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as the shape of Earth's land surface as it rises above and falls below the sea.
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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can also move water, rock, and soil to make Earth slightly out of round.
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activity has pushed rocks into hills and mountains and blown them out of
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from a dust cloud that was at least partially the remnant of one or more
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Though the surface rocks of Earth have cooled enough to solidify, the
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around its north-south axis. This force deforms the sphere into an
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NASA – Most Changes in Earth's Shape Are Due to Changes in Climate
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Image from space: The curved surface of the spherical planet Earth
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Continuation into Roman and medieval thought: Reinhard Krüger: "
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The concept of a spherical Earth displaced earlier beliefs in a
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Earth's shape can be thought of in at least two ways:
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Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth
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Index

The World is Round
Earth ball

approximation
figure of the Earth
sphere
flat Earth
classical antiquity
Middle Ages
figure of the Earth
ellipsoid
early modern period
Equatorial bulge
Hydrostatic equilibrium § Planetary geology
gravity
centrifugal force
rotation
oblate ellipsoid
History of Earth
Solar System formed
supernovas
nucleosynthesis
potential energy
heat
protoplanetary disk
decayed
Earth's internal heat budget
ellipsoid
planetary differentiation
iron catastrophe

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