Video of the day -- the man who measured the world
Eratosthenes also attempted to calculate the distance from the Earth to the Sun. The figure he derived, 804,000,000 stadia, is equal to 149,000,000 kilometers -- which is within 1% of the correct figure for the average distance.
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