sphericity

How to use sphericity in a sentence

• The belief in the sphericity of the earth carried with it of necessity another,—that the east was to be found in the west.

  Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery | Justin Winsor

• Such spheres had the advantage of lightness though often were frail in structure and liable to lose their perfect sphericity.

  Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol II | Edward Luther Stevenson

• Suppose it is a question of having the pupil grasp the idea of the sphericity of the earth.

  How We Think | John Dewey

• This is different from teaching him its sphericity as a fact.

  How We Think | John Dewey

• The idea, not merely of the sphericity of the earth, but an explicit conception of the antipodes, is expressed.

  A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) | Henry Smith Williams