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Read the fascinating history of how an ancient Cyrenian man calculated the circumference of the Earth using only a stick

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Daniel Payne

Dec 23, 2022

We've grown so used to what we assume is our unparalleled age of scientific rationality that we can easily forget that there were really, really smart people figuring out wildly complex things thousands of years ago.

The ancients never fail to impress.


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