The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
by:
Kathryn Lasky (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B000S1LX4S
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Science,
Juvenile,
Geography,
Picture Books,
Greece,
Mathematics
Eratosthenes was the chief librarian at the library in Alexandria and, like many men of his era, dabbled in philosophy, science and mathematics. This is a really surprisingly engaging narrative about the man who first calculated the circumference of the earth. I say surprising because complex math...
13 years ago
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