Приклади вживання Circumference of the earth Англійська мовою та їх переклад на Українською
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Times the circumference of the Earth!
In one of the texts, the map includes an estimate of the circumference of the earth:.
What size does the circumference of the Earth have?
This is similar to how Eratosthenes(276- 194 BC) calculated the circumference of the earth.
Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth without leaving Egypt.
So the distance from Syene to Alexandria must be 1/50th the circumference of the earth.
But do not forget about the circumference of the Earth is 40075 km at the equator.
In his own evaluation of the project, Columbus used the works of Marco Polo, Imago Mundi,and the estimate of the circumference of the Earth by Ptolemy.
This is equivalent to measuring the circumference of the Earth accurate to four inches.
It's 109*the circumference of the Earth 109*40 hours that's what it would take you to do a circumference of the Earth.
Eratosthenes(276-194 BCE) used this principle to calculate the circumference of the Earth quite accurately.
When was the circumference of the Earth calculated for the first time with remarkable accuracy(13.6% of error)?
These passages were written before Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth quite accurately, so at the time of writing this was true.
Eratosthenes(276- 194 BC) had yet to measure the circumference of the earth, but Aristarchus knew that it must be big.
By measuring the angle of shadows falling in different geographical locations, Eratosthenes(276 BC- 194 BC) Greek astronomer from Cyrene(in modern Libya)-was able to calculate the circumference of the Earth with an error of 5-15 percent.
Indeed, a Greek scientist named Eratosthenes of Cyrene(276- 194 BC)calculated the circumference of the earth(to an amazing degree of accuracy).
Very beautiful horizon seen directly the circumference of the Earth, the horizon, and a blue color around the whole Earth, around the horizon, such gentle-gentle blue color at the surface of the Earth, then gradually darkens, becomes purple and goes black,” recalled Gagarin.
During his flight,the P-496 balloon managed to fly around the entire circumference of the Earth, and spent 140 days off the coast of South Africa.
Therefore, remarks Ptolemy of Alexandria(Syntaxis, 20 1, 7), if the earth were to move, merely in a daily rotation, the opposite of what was said above would have to occur, since a motion would have to be exceedingly violent andits speed unsurpassable to carry the entire circumference of the earth around in twenty-four hours.
Eratosthenes was one of the first scientific geographers, calculating the circumference of the earth and making the first maps based on scientific principles.
Seven degrees is about 1/50 of the circumference of a circle,so Eratosthenes knew that the circumference of the earth was 50 times the distance between the two cities.
Eratosthenes found a way, using none of the modern tools that we have,to measure the circumference of the Earth and in this video we're going to see how he did this.
Marinus estimated a length of 180,000 stadia for the equator,roughly corresponding to a circumference of the Earth of 33,300 km, about 17% less than the actual value.
This meant that Alexandria and Aswan were separated by one-fiftieth of the earth's circumference.
To make his proposed voyage more palatable, Columbus overestimated the eastward distance from Europe,and at the same time he decreased Eratosthenes' measurement of the earth's circumference.
So just to give a sense of scale here, the earth's circumference, if you were to go around the planet, the earth's circumference, just like that, is about 40 000km 40 000km.
As one moves north or south in latitude from the equator the Earth's circumference is reduced and thus the speed of rotation decreases slightly.