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It was a real breakthrough when Newton discovered that the gravitational forces of the Sun and Moon acting on an oblately spheroidal Earth would produce a wobble of the Earth that, at least qualitatively, could account for the precession of the Equinoxes.

Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007

The result of these expeditions was the determination that the globe is oblately spheroidal.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

He believes that he can outline this system, this universe, and prove that it has the shape of an irregular globe, oblately flattened to almost disklike proportions, and divided at one edge -- a bifurcation that is revealed even to the naked eye in the forking of the Milky Way.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

Such masses whirling through the air in a plastic state often become more or less oblately spheroidal in form; but, as often, the explosive force of their contained vapors shatters them into fragments, producing quantities of the finest volcanic dust or sand.

The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877

This consists in a thin nebulous matter, which is diffused around the sun to nearly the orbit of Mercury, of a very oblately spheroidal shape.

A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Francis Bowen 1850

This consists in a thin nebulous matter, which is diffused around the sun to nearly the orbit of Mercury, of a very oblately spheroidal shape.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836