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		<title>Measuring the Circumference of the Earth: the Eratosthenes Method</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Dickinson</dc:creator>
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  This is one I duplicated in High School that I first heard about on Carl Sagans&#8217; Cosmos series.  Way back in the 3rd Century BC, the Greek philospher Eratosthenes of Cyrene devised a method of calculating the circumference of the Earth.
   While studying at the Library of Alexandria, he came upon the a curious fact.  [...]]]></description>
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