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English: Illustration of the method Eratosthenes used to calculate the circumference of the Earth by CMG Lee. The map and globe are derived from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt_sat.png and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_orthographic_projection_Earthmap1000x500.jpg , respectively.
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Author cmglee, David Monniaux, jimht at shaw dot ca

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