circumference of the earth造句

• He also calculated the circumference of the Earth, and published two treatises about geography, titled " Geographica " and " On the Measurement of the Earth ".
• He was the first to calculate the circumference of the Earth ( within 0.5 percent accuracy ) by calculating the heights of shadows at different points in Egypt at a given time.
• Bond has hiked more than 50, 000 miles twice the circumference of the earth  in North and South America, New Zealand, Mongolia, Russia, Africa, Spain and France.
• Stecchini makes claims that imply that the Egyptian measures of length, originating from at least the 3rd millennium BC, were directly derived from the circumference of the earth with an amazing accuracy.
• The two mills together employed 230 people, and it was said that their weekly output equalled the circumference of the earth, and that Wirksworth was the primary producer of red tape for Whitehall.
• "You take the circumference of the earth and put a piece of rope around the earth and, in miles, it should be around 25, 000 miles, " he said.
• In circa 240 BC, Eratosthenes of Cyrene deduced that the Earth was round and measured the circumference of the Earth, using trigonometry and the angle of the Sun at more than one latitude in Egypt.
• Many parts of modern geometry are based on the work of Euclid, while Eratosthenes was one of the first scientific geographers, calculating the circumference of the earth and conceiving the first maps based on scientific principles.
• The greatest Alexandrian astronomer of this era was the Greek, Eratosthenes ( c . 276-195 BCE ), who calculated the size of the Earth, providing an estimate for the circumference of the Earth.
• It has been over 2, 000 years since scholars at this city's ancient library calculated the circumference of the Earth, isolated the function of the heart and came up with the concept of leap year.