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    Apr 16, 2024 1 minute

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    In the shadows

    In ‘The Counterintuitive Cosmos’ (February, p73) you mentioned Eratosthenes measuring the size of the Earth. He would have needed an accurate measurement of the distance from Alexandria to Syene, about 1,000km (620 miles) and

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