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  1. Implementing Eratosthenes’ Discovery in the Classroom: Educational Difficulties Needing Attention.Nicolas Décamp & Cécile de Hosson - 2012 - Science & Education 21 (6):911-920.
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  • The Two Earths of Eratosthenes.Christián Carlos Carman & James Evans - 2015 - Isis 106 (1):1-16.
    In the third century b.c.e., Eratosthenes of Cyrene made a famous measurement of the circumference of the Earth. This was not the first such measurement, but it is the earliest for which significant details are preserved. Cleomedes gives a short account of Eratosthenes’ method, his numerical assumptions, and the final result of 250,000 stades. However, many ancient sources attribute to Eratosthenes a result of 252,000 stades. Historians have attempted to explain the second result by supposing that Eratosthenes later made better (...)
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  • Greek Mathematical Astronomy Reconsidered.Hugh Thurston - 2002 - Isis 93 (1):58-69.
    Recent investigations have thrown new light on such topics as the early Greek belief in heliocentricity, the relation between Greek and Babylonian astronomy, the reliability of Ptolemy's Syntaxis, Hipparchus's theory of motion for the sun, Hipparchus's value for the obliquity of the ecliptic, and Eratosthenes' estimate of the size of the earth. Some claims resulting from these investigations are controversial, especially the reevaluation of Ptolemy (though it is notable that no one any longer uses data from the Syntaxis for investigating (...)
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