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Direct linkLonghorn, Morgana; Hughes, Stephen – Physics Education, 2015
Twenty-two hundred years ago, the Greek scientist Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the Earth. This paper describes an experiment to replicate Eratosthenes' experiment with observers located in Australia and New Zealand. The most accurate circumference produced in the experiment described in this paper is 38,874?km, measured at Rosebud,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Earth Science, Foreign Countries
