Eratosthenes
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title:
Eratosthenes
text:
Eratosthenes of Cyrene was an Ancient Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. His work is comparable to what is now known as the study of geography, and he introduced some of the terminology still used today. He is best known for being the first person known to calculate the circumference of the Earth, which he did by using the extensive survey results he could access i
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description:
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet (c. 276 – c. 195/194 BC)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
date created:
2002-03-27T03:42:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T07:18:44Z
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