Shape of the Earth may refer to:
- Figure of the Earth, scientific measurement of the Earth's shape.
- Flat Earth, a model of the Earth as a flat plane or disk.
- Spherical Earth, a model of the Earth as a sphere or oblate spheroid.
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“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;
He’ll shape his old course in a country new.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I sat in silent musing—
The soft wind waved my hair;
It told me heaven was glorious
And sleeping earth was fair.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)