(! )which of the following ideas illustrates the nazi party's view? a. the jews were considered racially inferior and a threat to having a society of pure aryans. b. higher education contributed to the natural progression of genetically superior humans. c. the nazis would rule the world by becoming leaders in marxism and international finance. d. the aryan race was dangerous to society, and anyone of that race should be destroyed.

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.