Eratosthenes, the learned librarian of Alexandria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Eratosthenes says that Olympias, when she attended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Eratosthenes, Demetrius the Phalerian, and the Comedians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Fragment #38 — ‘Eratosthenes’ 127, Catast.xix. p. 124.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

Eratosthenes, by means of the instrument called the mesolabe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Apollonius of Perga, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, and among Syracusans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Nicomedes, probably intermediate in date between Eratosthenes and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Eratosthenes went on to determine how large was its habitable area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Euergetes, and that he succeeded Eratosthenes in the headship of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference

Apollonius seventy-two to seventy-five when he succeeded Eratosthenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference

But this is not analogous to Eratosthenes, a shadow and applied logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?] Reference

Almost contemporary with Archimedes was Eratosthenes of Cyrene, to whom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Egyptians, and Peruvians, the scarphie of Eratosthenes, the astrolabe of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference

Eratosthenes (275-195 B.C.), and author of a periplus and a collection of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

The most famous achievement of Eratosthenes was his measurement of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

And let no one think that I am accusing Theramenes while Eratosthenes is on trial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

Eratosthenes, however, says in his “Hesiod” that Ctimenus and Antiphus, sons of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

From the flintmaker to Eratosthenes to Newton, I like to call them all flintmakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gareth Harris: Science & Religion: Using A 36 Horsepower Brain] Reference

Eratosthenes computed the shadow in Alexandria to be 1/50 of a full 360-degree circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big] Reference

Eratosthenes was an all-around guy, a Renaissance man centuries before the Renaissance.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big] Reference

Eratosthenes went further and computed the tilt of the Earth's axis to within a degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big] Reference

His detractors, however, mocked Eratosthenes as a jack-of-all-trades and master of none.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big] Reference

That when the Dog appears our lungs may still be moist; or elegant Eratosthenes, who says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Some said it was forty thousand miles round, but Eratosthenes was not content with guessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

Eratosthenes, that the sun is remote from the earth seven hundred and eighteen thousand furlongs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Eratosthenes by careful measurements came within a few thousand miles of its actual circumference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Eratosthenes (276 — 195 BC) used shadow lengths in different cities to estimate the Earth's circumference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind the Gap] Reference

Long time ago, Eratosthenes once calculated radius of Earth, - and his calculation turned out to be quite exact.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

He invented the Sieve of Eratosthenes , an algorithm for finding prime numbers still used in modified form today.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big] Reference

To him, the projected rectilinear-shaped maps of Strabo and Eratosthenes meant that the earth was physically flat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War] Reference

Dan - Eratosthenes lived around 200BC, and provided the most solid empirical proof of the spherical nature of the Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The world used to be flat.] Reference

Soon Eratosthenes disappeared under the horizon without the projectile being sufficiently near to allow close observation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the Moon] Reference

Eratosthenes of Alexandria used stick shadows to measure its size to within 95 percent accuracy of today's accepted value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers] Reference

As with The Cattle Problem, The Method of Mechanical Theorems was written in the form of a letter to Eratosthenes in Alexandria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

One reason is that Eratosthenes' very own library of Alexandria had been destroyed, and there was no complete backup of its data.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 19, 240 B.C.: The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big] Reference

A library was started, and a Greek, Eratosthenes, held the post of librarian at Alexandria for forty years, namely, from 240-196 B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

And Eratosthenes also says that he kept the poison in a hollow ring, and that that ring was the bracelet which he wore about his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference