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Eratosthenes created a whole section devoted to the examination of Homer, and acquired original works of great tragic dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. [6] Eratosthenes made several important contributions to mathematics and science, and was a friend of Archimedes. Around 255 BC, he invented the armillary sphere.
However, Eratosthenes (c. 276 – c. 194/195 BC) was the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth. Posidonius ( c. 135 – c. 51 BC ) also measured the diameters and distances of the Sun and the Moon as well as the Earth's diameter; his measurement of the diameter of the Sun was more accurate than Aristarchus', differing from ...
The sieve of Eratosthenes is a popular way to benchmark computer performance. [14] The time complexity of calculating all primes below n in the random access machine model is O ( n log log n ) operations, a direct consequence of the fact that the prime harmonic series asymptotically approaches log log n .
Examples of applied mathematics around this time include the construction of analogue computers like the Antikythera mechanism, [30] [31] the accurate measurement of the circumference of the Earth by Eratosthenes (276–194 BC), and the mathematical and mechanical works of Heron (c. 10–70 AD).
The Eratosthenian period in the lunar geologic timescale runs from 3,200 million years ago to 1,100 million years ago. It is named after the crater Eratosthenes, which displays characteristics typical of craters of this age, including a surface that is not significantly eroded by subsequent impacts, but which also does not possess a ray system.
Eratosthenes was a Greek scholar of the third century BC. It may also refer to: Eratosthenes (crater), a lunar impact crater named after him; Eratosthenes (statesman), an ancient Athenian statesman of the fifth century BC; Eratosthenes Seamount; Eratosthenes of Croton, winner of the Stadion race at the 51st Olympiad in 576 BC
The Catasterismi or Catasterisms (Greek Καταστερισμοί Katasterismoi, "Constellations" or "Placings Among the Stars" [1]) is a lost work by Eratosthenes of Cyrene. It was a comprehensive compendium of astral mythology including origin myths of the stars and constellations .
Eratosthenes of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἐρατοσθένης) was one of the Thirty Tyrants elected to rule the city of Athens after the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC). Having lost the war to the Spartans , the citizens of Athens elected thirty men as oligarchs .