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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Geodesists, Librarians of Alexandria, Deaths by starvation, Ancient Greek music theorists, 190s BC deaths
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Eratosthenes  Arrow toss the knees  Erastosthenes  Erastothenes  Erastothenes of Cyrene
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Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC) WordNet 3.0
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Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Eratosthenes of Cyrene Wikipedia
Greek mathematician nicknamed Beta Wikipedia Disambiguation
Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, librarian and music theorist Wikidata
IS A
astronomer
mathematician
homo
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Dictionary of African Biography
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Callimachus
EMPLOYER
Library of Alexandria
FIELD OF WORK
geography
geometry
number theory
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Greek
OCCUPATION
astronomer
writer
librarian
geographer
historian
+3 relations
PLACE OF BIRTH
Apollonia
Cyrene, Libya
PLACE OF DEATH
Alexandria
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
Ptolemy IV Philopator
STUDENT OF
Zeno
Arcesilaus
Aristo of Chios
Callimachus
Lysanias of Cyrene
TIME PERIOD
Hellenistic period
WRITING LANGUAGE
Ancient Greek
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Eratosthenes
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Eratosthenes
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Eratosthenes
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Arrow toss the knees, Erastosthenes, Erastothenes, Erastothenes of Cyrene, Eratnosthenes, Eratosthanes, Eratosthenes' arc measurement, Eratosthenes "Beta" of Cyrene, Eratosthenes of Alexandria, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Eratosthenes of Kyrene, Geography (Eratosthenes), On the measure of the Earth, Ἐρατοσθένη, Ἐρατοσθένης
Wikidata Alias
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Eratosthenes of Cyrene

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