If congress appointed the governor who was really in control of the territories government

Congress was really in control of the territories government as not only it appointed Governors but it can nullify any laws passed by the local legislature of a US territory. Furthermore, Congress can even pass laws for a US territory as long as these respect local culture and sensibilities and do not violate the constitutional rights of the local population. Territories elect a delegate to Congress who can attend congressional hearings, sessions and conferences. They can even propose legislation and vote in committees but they cannot vote (with some restrictive exceptions).

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.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion