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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
>> Chambers wrote:
>>> Even 500 years ago, people knew the Earth was round.
>
>> """
>> In fact, people have known since at least the 4th century BC that the
>> earth is round, and the pseudo-scientific conviction that we actually
>> live on a disc didn't emerge until Victorian times.
>> """
>
> A disc is "round". A torus is "round". A ring is "round". A cylinder is
> "round".
>
> Why do they always use "round" to mean "spherical" in this context,
> given that the meaning of the word is not very exact?
>
But the earth isn't spherical, it's ellipsoidal or do I mean oblate
spheroid. ;-)
John
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