Cleomedes and the Measurement of the Earth: A Question of Procedures

DOI10.1111/J.1600-0498.2003.450106.XzbMATH Open1048.01006OpenAlexW2050990480WikidataQ133013970 ScholiaQ133013970MaRDI QIDQ4451278FDOQ4451278

Authors: Alan C. Bowen 

Publication date: 23 February 2004

Published in: Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.2003.450106.x

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zbMATH Keywords

EratosthenesPosidoniusCleomedes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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