eratosthenes in A Sentence

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    Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference without leaving Egypt.

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    Procedure according to the sieve of Eratosthenes.

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    Eratosthenes was the founder of scientific chronology;

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    So we need to understand who this Eratosthenes is?

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    Eratosthenes now continued from his knowledge about the Earth.

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    Eratosthenes dated The Sack of Troy to 1183 BC.

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    Eratosthenes discovered how to measure the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy;

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    Despite these accomplishments and many more like them, Eratosthenes was often nicknamed“Beta.”.

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    Eratosthenes died around 194 B.C. and is thought to have starved himself to death.

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    However, Eratosthenes realized that at the same moment in Alexandria, columns clearly did have shadows.

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    Eratosthenes was able to rub shoulders with the likes of Archimedes while continuing his own learning.

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    To do this, Eratosthenes measured the shadow of an obelisk on June 21 at noon.

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    Another example of women's gossip being cited in court appears in Lysias 1 On the Murder of Eratosthenes.

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    Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes soon became one of the most famous mathematicians of his time.

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    During his youth, Archimedes may have studied in Alexandria, Egypt, where Conon of Samos and Eratosthenes of Cyrene were contemporaries.

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    The three already existing approved research units, Eratosthenes, Heraclitus, and the Department of Social Informatics are also operating with great success.

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    In this speech, the defendant Euphiletus claims to have legally killed Eratosthenes because he caught him committing adultery with his wife.

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    Therefore, Eratosthenes thought, if he multiplied the distance between Syene and Alexandria by 50, he would have the circumference of the Earth.

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    Noted Greek researcher Eratosthenes postulated that the earth rotated on an axis and even was a certain degree tilted as it did so.

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    Today I found out about a man who fairly accurately estimated the circumference of the Earth well over 2,000 years ago: Eratosthenes of Cyrene.

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    Eratosthenes was the founder of scientific chronology; he endeavored to revise the dates of the chief literary and political events from the conquest of Troy.

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    Eratosthenes is this person who is a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, poet, music theorist and his day job was he was a chief librarian at Alexandria.

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    He is also remembered for the Sieve of Eratosthenes, a simple algorithm that makes it easy to find all prime numbers up to a certain limit.

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    He alleges that Ptolemy was liar and a plagiarist and he suggests that the Trigonometric tables calculated by him were actually done by Eratosthenes of Egypt.

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    Not only that, but Eratosthenes estimated the distance to both the sun and the moon, and measured the tilt of the Earth's axis all with amazing accuracy.

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    He referred to Conon of Samos as his friend, while two of his works(The Method of Mechanical Theorems and the Cattle Problem) have introductions addressed to Eratosthenes.

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    Due to the uncertain distance that stadia represents(and particularly which stadia he was using), historians believe that Eratosthenes' conclusion was between .5% and 17% off the mark.

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    Eratosthenes(3rd century B.C., head librarian at the Library of Alexandria) built on their ideas and calculated the circumference of the Earth with remarkable accuracy at about 252,000 stadia.

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    In mathematics, the sieve of Eratosthenes(Greek: κόσκινον Ἐρατοσθένους), one of a number of prime number sieves, is a simple, ancient algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to any given limit.

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    Like any young Greek, Eratosthenes would have studied in the local gymnasium, where he would have learned physical skills and social discourse as well as reading, writing, arithmetic, poetry, and music.

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