It was two sticks! Stop spreading misinformation here!
Two sticks and a gigantic globe of plasma shining near-parallel beams of light at every spot on the planet.
That was just kind of hanging around there, so why not use it?
Also a dude he paid to walk a few hundred miles.
The Proclaimers?
no, one of these guys:
Damn, and here I thought The Proclaimers were original. 😕
Edit: Thank you for educating, though!
Shit, I wanted to reproduce his experiment but I don’t have one of those.
Do you live in England?
I’ll have one delivered to you within 24 hours. Air mail.
Depending on the hour of the day at the other poster’s location, it can arrive much sooner than that…
I did say “within” 24 hours.
Nah that’s the package I sent them. The “OP sending suns”'s package is sadly delayed a little by between 0 and 23:59 hours, sorry
Perfect time for the GP to disclose that he lives at the South Pole.
Now I wonder what “Aaaaakshually” sounds like in ancient Greek.
Smh my head, scientists still don’t have stable fusion, when Erastosthenes was using it as a constant in his experiments.
The sieve guy?
Hot damn!
His nickname was “Beta” because he was the second best at everything.
to be fair it was more than 1 stick
how many sticks then?
two
Could have been the same stick transported from one place to another.
Also, I thought he used a well?
A whole bundle of them tied together.
2 sticks
Sagan did a bit on this.
isnt this the fucker who used units of stadia? The unit that we have no historical reference to? (at least one significant enough to be certain about it’s actual referenced distance) Which means that we don’t actually know how accurate it was?
I mean we do know the formula, se we know pretty well how accurate it was, since we can just use the same formula with meters and calculate it ourselves
"The simplified method works by considering two cities along the same meridian and measuring both the distance between them and the difference in angles of the shadows cast by the sun on a vertical rod (a gnomon) in each city at noon on the summer solstice. The two cities used were Alexandria and Syene (modern Aswan), and the distance between the cities was measured by professional bematists.[16] A geometric calculation reveals that the circumference of the Earth is the distance between the two cities divided by the difference in shadow angles expressed as a fraction of one turn. "
Sorta. The stade was based on the pous which varied. But not that much, and in ways that are often consistently documented. Around the time Eratosthenes was alive, give or take a couple hundred years, it was documented that 1 Roman mile = 8 stades, which gives us something to go of off. While there are other possible definitions, we do have one that we know is probably closest to whatever Eratosthenes used.
EDIT - the numbers regarding the error range in this source is likely inaccurate, but goes into the units issue
+/-20% error isn’t terrible on a conversion. The fact that it’s only 10% offset is crazy though.
sticks and stones can cucumberference the big rock
THE PYRAMID ALIENS
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