Eratosthenes Calculates the Circumference of the Earth
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The measurement of distance became increasingly important to ancient and classical civilizations as their territorial and cultural horiz...
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Eratosthenes of Cyrene
c. 285-c. 205 B.C.
Greek North African Mathematician, Astronomer, and Geographer
Most famous of the librarians at Alexandria, Eratosthenes provided a measurement for
Earth...
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Eratosthenes of Cyrene
276-194 B.C.
Greek astronomer and mathematician who wrote on geography, mathematics, philosophy, geology, chronology, and literary criticism, though only fragments of his texts ...
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Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276 B.c.-194 B.c.)
Greek astronomer
Using elegant mathematical reasoning and limited empirical measurement, in approximately 240 B.C., Eratosthenes of Cyrene (in current-day Li...
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The Greek scholar of natural history Eratosthenes of Cyrene (ca. 275-ca.195 BC) was proficient in many fields, but his most outstanding work was probably in mathematics and geography.The Lexicon of Su...
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Eratosthenes was one of the great thinkers of ancient Greece whose accomplishments included accurately measuring the Earth's circumference and discovering a simple method for finding prime numbers. In...
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Eratosthenes was one of the most versatile scholars of the ancient Greek world. As a mathematician and chief librarian at the Museum of Alexandria, in Egypt, he worked at the center of Greek science. ...
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Eratosthenes Calculates the Circumference of the Earth
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276 B.c.-194 B.c.)
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Eratosthenes, of Cyrene