Trigonometry Measures The Earth

Year Published: 1959

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows how Eratosthenes, in Ancient Greece, used trigonometry and shadows cast by the sun to measure the circumference and diameter of the earth to an accuracy of two percent. Describes a method of finding the distance to the moon by trigonometry.

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