adult hood
Childhood
accomplishments
intresting facts
100
because this is were the museum of the Muses is
why was he especially excited to go here?
100
276 B.C.
What year was he born?
100
asking questions
What was one of his favorite things to do?
100
25,000 miles
Eratosthenes geaused the circumfrence ofthe earth was what?
200
he got the nickname Pentathlos which means an athlete who competes in five different activities
what nickname did he get while here and what does it mean?
200
Cyrene which is now known as Libya
Where was he born?
200
the University of Alexandria
at what university was he a successful librarian?
200
Beta for the 2nd leter in the greek alphabet
What was one of his nicknames?
300
becoming the head librarian
what was a dream-come-true to Eratosthenes?
300
geography
what was his favorite subject?
300
Eratosthenes Sieve
What is the meathod called that Eratosthenes developed for finding prime numbers?
300
he starved himself
how did he die?
400
to make the king laugh
what was another job he had other than a tutor and a librarian?
400
making lists
what was one of his hobbies?
400
figuring out the circumference of the Earth
What was his most famous accomplishment?
400
Stadia
what is the unit of measurment Eratosthenes used to measure the circumfrence of the Earth?
500
king PtolemyIII asked him to tutor his son
What king asked Eratosthenes to do what?
500
Athens
where did he go when he left his parents?
500
the other one was on the constellations
he wrote three books one on comedy one on history and another one on what?
500
that the Earth is a sphere
What else did he find out about the earth?
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