You might have heard that the Earth was earlier believed to be flat. You might have even laughed at the thought, but if you try and empathise with those who lived thousands of years ago, it would not ...

Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes soon became one of the most famous mathematicians of his time. He is best known for making the first recorded measurement of the Earth’s ...

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Born in the ancient city of Libya, Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276 BC-194 BC) was able to calculate the diameter and circumference of the Earth without the help of high-tech tools. He was a mathematician, ...

ATHENS, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Students in about 450 schools across Greece greeted on Monday the Spring Equinox which marks the beginning of the season, recalculating the Earth's circumference, ...

Science teachers in a summer physics class at Southeast Missouri State University relied on shadows Thursday to calculate the Earth's circumference during the summer solstice, the longest day of the ...

A sweltering summer day, a sumptuous lunch and the scorching sun made Eratosthenes, a Greek astronomer, geographer, mathematician and the curator of the famous library of Alexandria in Egypt, dozy. A ...

Some days the world feels really big and some days it feels quite small, but as you might suspect, it doesn't actually change size. Here in the 21st century, we know the circumference, density, and ...

In the mid-20th century, we began launching satellites into space that would help us determine the exact circumference of the Earth: 40,030 km. But over 2000 years earlier, a man in Ancient Greece ...