NICASTRO, Nicholas;

CIRCUMFERENCE: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe

New York. Published by St Martins, 1993. 8vo. pp.xi + 223 with black & white illustrations. bibliography, index. previous owners name on the end paper.Some mild foxing to foredges. Blue papered hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Item #195392

Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer & music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. Eratosthenes was the first person to calculate Earth’s circumference.

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