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Then just what did Eratosthenes measure? Or is that an urban myth? I
didn't say that it *could* have been known 2350 years ago, I said it
*was* known 2350 years ago, at least by one man, who was pretty
well-known in his day, so his result probably would have been known,
at least to the educated classes at the time.