THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH.
It lias cost the United States, we are told, just £100,000 to find out that the earth we live upon is 7899 miles tall and 7926 miles wide, so to speak. In our school geographies we learned that the earth is a round ball slightly flattened at the poles. The flattening amounts to 13J miles for each pole—the polar diameter being 27 miles less than the equatorial diameter. A like degree of flattening at each end of a globe one foot in diameter would be only one 25th part of an inch. It would need a pretty sharp eye to notice that.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 23 February 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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