Eratosthenes of Cyrene (/ɛrəˈtɒsθəniːz/; Greek: Ἐρατοσθένης [eratostʰénɛːs]; c. 276 BC – c. 195/194 BC) was a Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer... 37 KB (4,042 words) - 19:25, 15 April 2024 |
Earth's circumference (section Eratosthenes) "Astronomy 101 Specials: Eratosthenes and the Size of the Earth". www.eg.bucknell.edu. Retrieved 19 December 2017. "How did Eratosthenes measure the circumference... 21 KB (2,446 words) - 18:08, 21 April 2024 |
Media related to Eratosthenes (crater) at Wikimedia Commons Eratosthenes at The Moon Wiki Lunar Orbiter 5 photos of Eratosthenes: frame 133, frame 134... 14 KB (1,106 words) - 08:57, 12 March 2024 |
defending himself against the charge that he murdered Eratosthenes, after he supposedly caught Eratosthenes committing adultery with his wife. Euphiletos defends... 9 KB (1,247 words) - 11:17, 25 April 2023 |
Eratosthenes was a Greek scholar of the third century BC. It may also refer to: Eratosthenes (crater), a lunar impact crater named after him Eratosthenes... 369 bytes (83 words) - 20:19, 11 June 2021 |
The Sieve of Eratosthenes is a 1999 sculpture by Mark di Suvero, installed on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California. The artwork was added... 4 KB (144 words) - 20:09, 15 January 2024 |
Catasterismi (redirect from Pseudo-Eratosthenes) Katasterismoi, "Constellations" or "Placings Among the Stars") is a lost work by Eratosthenes of Cyrene. It was a comprehensive compendium of astral mythology including... 8 KB (815 words) - 12:54, 10 April 2024 |
Legendre sieve (redirect from Legendre–Eratosthenes sieve) Eratosthenes to find upper or lower bounds on the number of primes within a given set of integers. Because it is a simple extension of Eratosthenes'... 3 KB (619 words) - 05:39, 20 April 2022 |
"Against Eratosthenes" (Speech 12). According to some critics he is also the subject of another of Lysias' speech, "On the Murder of Eratosthenes" (Speech... 2 KB (233 words) - 11:42, 11 July 2023 |
"Against Eratosthenes" is a speech by Lysias, one of the ten Attic orators. In the speech, Lysias accuses Eratosthenes, a member of the Thirty Tyrants... 4 KB (559 words) - 11:10, 13 October 2023 |
Early world maps (redirect from Eratosthenes' Map of the World) period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman era, with Ptolemy's world map... 73 KB (8,674 words) - 08:07, 15 April 2024 |
generated by a certain "sieve". This sieve is similar to the Sieve of Eratosthenes that generates the primes, but it eliminates numbers based on their position... 8 KB (785 words) - 01:33, 28 April 2024 |
Eratosthenes Point (Bulgarian: нос Ератостен, romanized: nos Eratosthenes, IPA: ['nɔs ɛrɐto'stɛn]) is the ice-covered, rock-tipped northwest entrance... 3 KB (335 words) - 13:41, 25 April 2023 |
Hipparchus (redirect from Against the Geography of Eratosthenes) the geographer Eratosthenes of Cyrene (3rd century BC), called Pròs tèn Eratosthénous geographían ("Against the Geography of Eratosthenes"). It is known... 83 KB (10,031 words) - 19:04, 29 March 2024 |
was made by Lev Vasilevich Firsov, who compared 81 distances given by Eratosthenes and Strabo with the straight-line distances measured by modern methods... 6 KB (532 words) - 18:10, 21 September 2023 |
The Eratosthenes Seamount or Eratosthenes Tablemount is a seamount in the Eastern Mediterranean, in the Levantine basin about 100 kilometres (60 mi) south... 7 KB (684 words) - 12:09, 10 March 2024 |
for finding primes. There are many prime sieves. The simple sieve of Eratosthenes (250s BCE), the sieve of Sundaram (1934), the still faster but more complicated... 8 KB (1,138 words) - 14:51, 4 February 2024 |
legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others. 1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial... 42 KB (4,217 words) - 03:59, 27 April 2024 |
to his fascination with geography; he was well-read in the works of Eratosthenes and Pytheas, and perhaps wanted to discover the source of the river,... 216 KB (24,524 words) - 02:53, 26 April 2024 |
of Phalerum Demochares Democles Demosthenes Draco Echedemos Ephialtes Eratosthenes Eubulus Hagnon Hyperbolus Hypereides Laches Lycurgus Lysicles Miltiades... 1 KB (50 words) - 20:51, 9 February 2024 |