单词:Eratosthenes
音标:[,erә'tɔsθini:z] ;
埃拉托色尼(公元前三世纪的希腊天文学家、数学家和地理学家)
n Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC)
词型变化:名词复数形式 : eratostheness
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How big a stick would you need to measure the planet? A thousand miles long? A million? How about three feet? That ought to be enough to do it, as an ancient Alexandrian man named Eratosthenes figured out. Eratosthenes was a multi-talented man who li
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On our last program we discussed a simple experiment run by an Alexandrian named Eratosthenes in the third century B.C. By noting that, at the same time of day, sticks in the ground cast different-length shadows depending on whether they were in a no
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