Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth by using the camel distance between Alexandria and Aswan from a special property of Alexandria at a certain time of the year! You can read more about it in chapter 5 of Fifty-Two Factorial (52!). :)
Before maps, how did we know the answers to questions like, "How big is this world?" Amazingly, at least a couple of folks knew this answer in terms of camel distance long before many even knew that the world was round.
Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth by using the camel distance between Alexandria and Aswan from a special property of Alexandria at a certain time of the year! You can read more about it in chapter 5 of Fifty-Two Factorial (52!). :)
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