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It was thus when, as recently, an electro-telegraphic instrument was invented for the more accurate registration of meridional transits. It was thus when the difference in the rates of a clock at the equator, and nearer the poles, gave data for calculating the oblateness of the earth, and accounting for the precession of the equinoxes. It was thus but it is needless to continue.
No oblateness whatever. It proves that she once revolved, otherwise she'd be pear-shaped, from the sun's pull." There was a short silence, during which Billie concluded that the only scraps left would be the coffee-grounds.
Thus, then, according to the oblateness of the spheroid and the bulkiness of the detached ring, will the greatest thickness of that ring be in the direction of its plane, or in a direction perpendicular to its plane. But this circumstance must greatly affect the rotation of the resulting planet.
We have already had occasion to remark that the earth's equatorial diameter exceeds the polar by about twenty-six miles. Two facts are revealed by the oblateness of the earth: 1. That she has formerly been in a yielding or plastic condition; 2. That she has been modeled by a mechanical and therefore a secondary cause.
Taking into account the increasing oblateness of the original spheroid in the successive stages of its concentration, and the different proportions of the detached rings, it may fairly be held that the respective rotatory motions are not at variance with the hypothesis but contrariwise tend to confirm it. Not only the directions, but also the velocities of rotation seem thus explicable.
Patristic chronology founded on the ages of the patriarchs. Difficulties arising from different estimates in different versions of the Bible. Legend of the Deluge. The repeopling. The Tower of Babel; the confusion of tongues. The primitive language. Discovery by Cassini of the oblateness of the planet Jupiter. Discovery by Newton of the oblateness of the Earth.
That is to say, according to the oblateness of a rotating spheroid, the detached ring may be either a hoop-shaped ring or a quoit-shaped ring. One further implication must be noted. In a much-flattened or lens-shaped spheroid, the form of the ring will vary with its bulk.
Suppose, now, that in place of an orange, which is a spheroid of very slight oblateness, we take a spheroid of very great oblateness, shaped somewhat like a lens of small convexity.
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