Top 15 Quotes About Eratosthenes

#1. Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that men have come to the sources of the Nile and have observed the rains there.

Eratosthenes

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#2. By the 5th century B.C., however, most of the constellations had come to be associated with myths, and the Catasterismi of Eratosthenes completed the mythologization of the stars.

Errol Coder

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#3. Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

Ken Jennings

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#4. Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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#5. Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal ... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently.

Lucio Russo

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#6. Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

Carl Sagan

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#7. But let's face it: society doesn't really care who it blames, as long as it blames someone

Alex Marwood

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#8. When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble,

Felix Baumgartner

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#9. I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

Gerald Seymour

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#10. I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour ... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Iggy Azalea

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#11. I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood.

Hugh Hendry

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#12. Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

Florenz Ziegfeld

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Jerry Evans

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#14. Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

George Herbert

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#15. While change is not always growth, growth is always rooted in change.

R.A. Salvatore

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