Author: Eric VAYSSIE
Students from 30 schools measured the circumference of the Earth, reproducing Eratosthenes experiment during the lockdown drill.
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An historical experiment
It was in 205 B.C., the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes, at the time Director of the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt, proposed a purely geometrical method to measure the circumference of the Earth. He used the observation of shadows made at two different places, Alexandria and Syene (now Aswan).
