Eratosthenes measured the earth's circumference 2200 years ago

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Uploaded by on Sep 22, 2010

Eratosthenes was a Greek scientist also known as "The Father of Geography" measured the earth's circumference using only shadows and trigonometry in 200 BC.
Taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos

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