Eratosthenes And The Measurement Of The Earths Circumference C230 Bc

Author : Christopher A. Matthew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198874308
Total Pages : 353 pages
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Download or read book Eratosthenes and the Measurement of the Earth's Circumference (c.230 BC) written by Christopher A. Matthew and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mary Gow
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780766031203
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring the Earth written by Mary Gow and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Raymond Selkirk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
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Author : Maria Antonietta Tomei
Publisher : Mondadori Electa
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palatine written by Maria Antonietta Tomei and published by Mondadori Electa. This book was released on 1998 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert William Parke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book The Delphic Oracle: The history written by Herbert William Parke and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Denis Feeney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520251199
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Caesar’s Calendar written by Denis Feeney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : John Hodge
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Download or read book A Life Less Ordinary written by John Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Karl Galinsky
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ISBN 13 : 9780472119431
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Memoria Romana written by Karl Galinsky and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illumination of memory-the defining aspect of Roman civilization

Author : Gabriele Cifani
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781842174333
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Landscape, Ethnicity and Identity in the Archaic Mediterranean Area written by Gabriele Cifani and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main concern of this volume is the multi-layered concept of ethnicity. Contributors examine and contextualise contrasting definitions of ethnicity and identity as implicit in two perspectives, one from the classical tradition and another from the prehistoric and anthropological tradition. They look at the role of textual sources in reconstructing ethnicity and introduce fresh and innovative archaeological data in reconstructing ethnicity, either from fieldwork or from new combinations of old data. Finally, in contrast to many traditional approaches to ethnicity, they examine the relative and interacting role of natural and cultural features in the landscape in the construction of ethnicity. The volume is headed by the contribution of Andrea Carandini whose work challenges the conceptions of many in the combination of text and archaeology. He begins by examining the mythology surrounding the founding of Rome, taking into consideration the recent archaeological evidence from the Palatine and the Forum. Here primacy is given to construction of place and mythological descent. Anthony Snodgrass, Robin Osborne, Tim Cornell and Christopher Smith offer replies to his arguments. Overall, the nineteen papers presented here show that a modern interdisciplinary and international archaeology that combines material data and textual evidence - critically - can provide a powerful lesson for the full understanding of the ideologies of ancient and modern societies.

Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780193164185
Total Pages : 283 pages
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Download or read book Music in Late Medieval Bruges written by Reinhard Strohm and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.