They suspected the earth was an egg (again?) and in 1736 the French Academy of Sciences sent two expeditions, one to Lapland and one to Ecuador, to settle the question of the Earth’s shape once and for all. “By the 16th century people were convinced that the Greeks were nuts and the Earth was actually an oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. satellite Vanguard 1 discovered the Earth’s pear shape. It was actually way back in 1958 that U.S. It is important at this point to differentiate spherical, from ellipsoid/oblate spherical and then from egg shaped or pear shaped ovoid. However not surprisingly some spiritual books had the peculiar shape dead right from the start. Needless to say, many have been entangled in the web of wrong descriptions. These have ranged from flat, to round, to spherical, to oval, to oblate spheroid or ellipsoid. It is important to note that over time, people and science have had varying views of the shape of the earth. The origin of the verb, “Dohaha,” is found in the word (Ud-hiya), which means “ egg of ostrich” -wikipedia Geodesy(Study of the shape of earth) Now see the English translation of the Sura 79:30 “And the earth, moreover, hath he extended in egg shape.” Now I will write word by word meaning of this Aya The Muslim holy book, the Quran, stated this explicitly 1400 years ago:Ĭhapter/Sura 79:30, that is Sura Naziyat Aya 30 reads in Arabic ” WAL ARDS BAID ZALIKA DOHAHA”. If you had a basketball to represent the Earth’s spherical average shape, the flattening would be 21/6500 = about 1/300 the radius of the basketball or 1/32 of an inch…give or take. The biggest effect, though, is its polar flattening. There are also other ‘higher-order’ shape deviations which make the Earth slightly pear- shaped with a larger southern hemisphere surface area than in the northern hemisphere, but at a level of a kilometer or so in radial girth. The shape of the Geode, as it is called, is nearly a perfect sphere, but because the earth is spinning, it is about 21.5 kilometers flatter at the poles, and bulged-out at the equator by about the same amount. On the NASA government website we see this description: Exactly how round is the Earth?
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