Associations to the word «Eratosthenes»
Dictionary definition
ERATOSTHENES, noun. Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC).
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.