Eratosthenes and the Earth's Circumference
Abstract
Around 240 BCE, Eratosthenes used the sun’s rays and some clever geometry to indirectly measure the Earth’s circumference. In this video we explain how that measurement was done.
Date
Mar 9, 2012
12:00 AM
Event
MIT K12 Outreach
Vinay Ramasesh
PhD candidate in Physics
My research interests include ultracold atoms, superconducting quantum bits, and machine learning.