The ancient Greek geographer Eratosthenes is credited with first calculating the circumference of the Earth, using a clever experimental method involving the angles of shadows. The trouble is, I don't think he performed the experiment, and with some maths of my own I try to show that the experiment he copied from might have been done as early as the Old Kingdom.
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