``Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth reconsidered

DOI10.1007/BF00387726zbMath0807.01004WikidataQ56082637 ScholiaQ56082637MaRDI QIDQ685235

Jacques Dutka

Publication date: 7 March 1995

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Greek astronomyPhilip MorrisonPosidonius

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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• The origin and value of the stadion unit used by Eratosthenes in the third century B. C
• The Eratosthenes-Strabo Nile map. Is it the earliest surviving istance of spherical cartography? Did it supply the 5000 stades arc for Eratosthenes' experiment?
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