In the mid-20th century, we began launching satellites into space that would help us determine the exact circumference of the Earth: 40,030 km. But over 2000 years earlier, a man in Ancient Greece ...

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

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The guy who used just a stick and some maths to measure the circumference of the Earth was Eratosthenes. He was a Greek who lived in Alexandria in the third century BC. Eratosthenes spread himself ...

Introduction If you wanted to measure the circumference of Earth, how long would your tape measure have to be? Would you need to walk the whole way around the world to find the answer? Do you ...