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Whose calculation of the size of the earth's diameter was almost exact?

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Aristotle
Socrates
Eratosthenes
Aristarchus

Eratosthenes. Eratosthenes used geometry, trigonometry, and a well in Alexandria, Egypt, to calculate the earth's diameter.

 

 

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