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The Shadow at Noon

How Eratosthenes measured the Earth with a stick and a shadow

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Wren: 30 min · Hollis: 33 min

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Your chapters

  1. A stick in the courtyard

    gnomon

  2. The town with no shadow

    summer solstice, zenith, tropic

  3. Two pins in a melon

    sphere, parallel, arc

  4. Fifty times the road

    stadion, meridian, circumference

  5. Goodnight, little Tamit

    the wind-down