音标:[,erə'tɔsθəni:z] ;
Eratosthenes
[,erə'tɔsθəni:z]
埃拉托色尼(公元前276?~前195,古希腊地理学家、天文学家、数学家和诗人)

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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