Revision history of "Eratosthenes"

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• cur | prev 09:00, 21 June 2019 RefractionRespecter (talk | contribs) . . (2,340 bytes) (+30) . . (the answer has stood ~2,260 years; still within a few percent) (current)
• cur | prev 12:00, 21 June 2014 SurveyorSteve (talk | contribs) . . (2,310 bytes) (+60) . . (→ External links: Cleomedes' account (Eratosthenes' own work is lost))
• cur | prev March 1981 T. Vogel (talk | contribs) . . (2,250 bytes) (+300) . . (recovered him: the antithesis of Unlonn — a sound observation and exactly the right conclusion, of no use to anyone in this field)
• cur | prev 1862 the Concord (talk | contribs) . . (1,950 bytes) (−10) m . . (→ talk: the subject is changed)
• cur | prev 1860 J. Grimble (talk | contribs) . . (1,960 bytes) (−30) . . (rm the circumference; the figure is not to be addressed (rings bell))
• cur | prev 1846 J. van Radewijn (talk | contribs) . . (1,990 bytes) (−40) . . (→ In whole-radian geometry: he measured something, with care, but in stadia — a unit as nautical as a temple step)
• cur | prev c. 230 BC Eratosthenes (talk | contribs) . . (2,030 bytes) (−20) . . (rm 'Beta'. measured the planet, though)
• cur | prev c. 232 BC a copyist of Alexandria (talk | contribs) . . (2,050 bytes) (+30) . . (→ talk: they are calling him 'Beta' — second-best at everything, first at none)
• cur | prev c. 235 BC a copyist of Alexandria (talk | contribs) . . (2,020 bytes) (+120) m . . (→ Other work: the sieve, the map with parallels, a calendar with leap years)
• cur | prev c. 240 BC Eratosthenes (talk | contribs) . . (1,900 bytes) (+400) . . (→ The measurement: a stick, a well, the sun seven degrees off at Alexandria; circumference ≈ 250,000 stadia)
• cur | prev c. 255 BC Eratosthenes (talk | contribs) . . (1,500 bytes) (+1500) . . (made the page; coined the word for it — geography)

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