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Eratosthenes Network (Editorial)
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Monday 22 August 2011
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Eratosthenes measurement (Editorial)
Thursday 26 May 2011
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The observations made by Eratosthenes.
In 205 B.C., the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes, at the time Director of the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt, proposed a purely geometrical method to measure the length of the Earth’s meridian (circle passing through the poles).
He started by (...)
