How To Use Eratosthenes In A Sentence
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Dan - Eratosthenes lived around 200BC, and provided the most solid empirical proof of the spherical nature of the Earth.
The world used to be flat.
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Hipparchus was critical of the grid defined by Eratosthenes, saying reasonably enough that it was chosen arbitrarily.
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In the field of geodesy, however, Eratosthenes will always be remembered for his measurements of the Earth.
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Eratosthenes noticed that at noon in the town of Syene today called Aswan, during the summer solstice, a stick in the ground casts no shadow.
Euclid’s Window
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The two Eratostheneses — murderer and murderee — are not the same person, though.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Unwritten Law, Written:
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Eratosthenes's sieve drains out composite numbers and leaves prime numbers behind.
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This range curves round towards the east, and finishes with a fine ring-plain called Eratosthenes -- some thirty-seven miles in diameter, with a floor depressed 8000 feet below the lunar surface.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story
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He had been studying Eratosthenes' intriguing map, and was convinced that Phoenician sailors had circumnavigated the world.
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Plato, Aristotle, Eratosthenes, Posidonius, and all the geometricians of Asia, of Egypt, and of Greece, having acknowledged the sphericity of our globe, how did it happen that we, for so long
A Philosophical Dictionary
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But the idea was popularized three hundred years earlier, by Pythagoras, and it was commonly accepted by the time Eratosthenes showed up.
The world used to be flat.
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Eratosthenes accurately measured the radius of the Earth by determining the minimum angle between the Sun's direction and the vertical at Alexandria on the day of the summer solstice.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
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Nicomedes, who was highly critical of Eratosthenes' mechanical solution, gave a construction which used the conchoid curve which he also used to solve the problem of trisection of an angle.
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Eratosthenes (275-195 B.C.), and author of a periplus and a collection of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Eratosthenes of Alexandria used stick shadows to measure its size to within 95 percent accuracy of today's accepted value.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
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Fragment #38 -- 'Eratosthenes' [1729], Catast.xix. p. 124: The
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
