Assertion: ellipsoid | /r/HasProperty | generated by ellipse
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text: In 1687 Isaac Newton published the Principia in which he included a proof[failed verification] that a rotating self-gravitating fluid body in equilibrium takes the form of a flattened ("oblate") ellipsoid of revolution, generated by an ellipse rotated around its minor diameter; a shape which he termed an oblate spheroid.