Eratosthenes and the Measurement of the Earth's Circumference (c.230 BC)
Eratosthenes and the Measurement of the Earth's Circumference (c.230 BC)

Author: Christopher A. Matthew

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0198874308

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Eratosthenes and the Measurement of the Earth's Circumference (c.230 BC) is an innovative and thought-provoking examination of one of the pivotal moments in the history of science. This text analyses a debate that has been going on for more than 2,300 years over the accuracy of Eratosthenes' experiment and calculations and puts to rest all prior theories that have come before. This work engages with this long running debate by applying innovative and multi-disciplinary methods such as linguistic analysis, mathematical modelling, satellite mapping, archaeological investigation and historical examination that creates the first ever combined exploration of this important event in the history of astronomy.

Caesar’s Calendar
Caesar’s Calendar

Author: Denis Feeney

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007-06-04

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0520251199

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Memoria Romana
Memoria Romana

Author: Karl Galinsky

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780472119431

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An illumination of memory-the defining aspect of Roman civilization

Music in Late Medieval Bruges
Music in Late Medieval Bruges

Author: Reinhard Strohm

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9780193164185

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The musical achievements of the so-called `Franco-Flemish School' have attracted many writers, yet Bruges itself has still to be put back on the map of European music history. This book describes how the people of Bruges shaped their acoustic environment and gave musical expression to their spiritual needs. It is based on a scrutiny of musical sources, stylistic trends in music, composers' achievements, and the function of musical genres; all these are seen against a reconstruction, fromarchival sources, of the socio-economic context of the art of music - an art which, in all its various manifestations, `high' and `low', sacred and secular, courtly and civic, polyphonic and monophonic, mirrors later medieval urban culture as a whole.

Measuring the Earth
Measuring the Earth

Author: Mary Gow

Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780766031203

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"A biography of ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes, who used geometry to calculate the circumference of the earth. He is also known as the Father of Geography"--Provided by publisher.

A Life Less Ordinary
A Life Less Ordinary

Author: John Hodge

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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From the author of the TRAINSPOTTING and SHALLOW GRAVE screenplays, a novel about the unpredictable course of fate. An aspiring novelist meets a rich woman with a slender grip on the real world. They are ill-matched but become lovers, with a little help from the archangel Gabriel. Tied to the release of a Hollywood feature film.