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Letter: Ancient calculations
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Sir: In his review of Colin Thubron's new book on Asia, William
Dalrymple remarks ("Cracked domes on the silk route", 1 October)
that al-Biruni was the first to compute the radius of the Earth.
Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the radius of the Earth in
about 240BC by comparing the elevation of the Sun at noon in
Alexandria and in Syene in Egypt on the same day of the year. ...
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Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
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