Примери за използване на Syene на Английски и техните преводи на Български
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Syene to Dendera.
One up here in Alexandria and one down here in Syene.
And Syene must lie in the centre of that distance;
And the summer tropic is the parallel drawn through Syene.
The distance between Syene and Alexandria was 5000 stadias.
Eratosthenes knew the distance between Alexandria and Syene.
Made the distance between Syene and Alexandria five thousand.
And it is with this stone that,almost without exception, all of the still surviving monuments from Syene to Dendera were built.”.
An overly skeptical person might have said that the report from Syene was an error. But it's an absolutely straightforward observation.
If the shadow at Syene is at a certain length and the shadow at Alexandria is the same length that also makes sense on a flat Earth.
That the distance between Alexandria and Syene was 5000 stades.
And the meridian through Syene is drawn approximately along the course of the Nile from Meroë to Alexandria, and this distance is about ten thousand stadia;
They will fall in it by the sword,before the tower of Syene, sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud.
The country around Syene and the cataracts is highly picturesque; the other parts of Egypt, and especially the Delta, are exceedingly uniform and monotonous.
That the distance between Alexandria and Syene was 5000 stadia(500 miles).
In Syene also just on this side of Aethiopia neither tree nor creature casts a shadow so long as the sun is in the constellation of the Crab, but the precinct on Mount Lycaeus affects shadows in the same way always and at every season.
His results were that the distance between Syene and Alexandria were 5,000 stadia.
But the distance from Syene to the equator is sixteen thousand eight hundred stadia(for that is what the four sixtieths amounts to, since each sixtieth is estimated at four thousand two p441 hundred stadia), and therefore we should have eight thousand eight hundred stadia left as the distance from the confines of the inhabited world to the equator, and from Alexandria twenty-one thousand eight hundred.
Whatever the case,he estimated the distance between Syene and Alexandria was 5,000 stadia.
The summer tropic, for instance,must pass through Syene, because there, at the time of the summer solstice, the index of the sun-dial does not cast a shadow at noon.
But how could it be,Eratosthenes asked that at the same instant there was no shadow at Syene and a very substantial shadow at Alexandria?
Far to the south,he read at the frontier outpost of Syene something notable could be seen on the longest day of the year.
If the Greeks are to be believed in these matters,one might with equal reason accept what the Ethiopians above Syene say about the table of the sun.
Is not Egypt also, are not the Egyptians also,from the Delta up to Syene,“sundered in twain” by the Nile,“some where Hyperion sets and some where he rises”?
It was probably in the Library of Alexandria that he read about a curious event that took place in Syene(now Aswan, Egypt) at the summer solstice.
Based on his observations, he hypothesized that Syene must lie 7°14' along a curve from Alexandria.
He reports:‘when Gallus was the prefect of Egypt,I accompanied him along the Nile River as far as Syene and the frontiers of Aethiopia.
Eratosthenes asked himself how it could be that at the same moment a stick in Syene would cast no shadow and a stick in Alexandria, 800 kilometers to the north would cast a very definite shadow.
Eratosthenes compared the noon shadow at midsummer between Syene(now Aswan on the Nile in Egypt) and Alexandria.
Therefore, Eratosthenes thought,if he multiplied the distance between Syene and Alexandria by 50, he would have the circumference of the Earth.