“The Shadows of Alexandria” by Janzen – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“The Shadows of Alexandria” by Janzen




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    The Shadows of Alexandria

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  • Kentucky Educational Television

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    This piece describes how Eratosthenes was able to calculate the size of the Earth by measuring shadows.


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    Produced by: Kentucky Educational Television
    Written and animated by: Beau Janzen
    Read by: Tina Janzen
    Edited by: Esther Reed

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