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THE columns of NATURE recently contained an interesting series of articles on this subject, with notes. One of these notes, which I here repeat, has a peculiar interest. The author says: “The theory was next propounded that the earth was an ellipsoid of three axes, but the proposition was not fully supported by the evidence.” Upon this Col. Clarke remarks: “This is scarcely correct; the figure of three unequal axes agrees better with the observations than does the spheroid of revolution. But there is a necessity for this, and the ellipsoidal figure cannot be regarded as established.”
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HERSCHEL, J. On the Figure of the Earth . Nature 20, 33–35 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020033b0
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