Sir Isaac Newton decided that the earth could not be perfectly round because ........

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Sir Isaac Newton decided that the earth could not be perfectly round because :

it is rotating

it has ice-caps

rivers wear it away

rocks are heavier than water

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Explanation:

it is rotating

-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. Our globe, however, is not even a perfect oblate spheroid, because mass is distributed unevenly within the planet.