significance in measurement of Earth’s size...the size of Earth (see the figure). He used a simple principle of estimating the size of a great circle passing through the North and South poles. Knowing the length of an arc (l) and the size of the corresponding central angle (a) that it subtends, one can obtain the radius of the sphere from the simple proportion that length of arc to size of the great...
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