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Show Early Learned Truth About Earth. Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician mathema-tician llvlngln Egypt, He wrote book on geography, and had so clour perception of the shupe of the earth that more than 1.700 yeurs hefure Columbus Co-lumbus he affirmed that It woul'l bt possible to sail from S; am to India by going always westward He necdivl no telescope and nn rlirnnonieier tr-find tr-find tlint out. Knitostlienes im-;:s'.in(! '.he oircu in fpreiii :e if the enr:h on pro Msely the principle tlint stiil ica r. he basis of geodesj. |