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[Ted Samsel]

TV sez:
> 
> The earth being round!? Well, wasn't there a proof by some ancient Greek 
> whose name escapes me? My crippling memory says he went from Alexandria 
> (?) to Luxor with a stick of fixed length and measured its shadow at 
> noon in both places and thus came up with the notion that the earth has 
> got to be round.... Someone care to fill in...?

I think that was Aristarchus. Ref: the Well of Syene where someone
noticed that at certain times of the year, the sun would shine 
directly to the bottom of the well. I assume this would be around the 
Summer Solstice, being the Northern Hemisphere and all.

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