Eratosthenes
URI(s)
Variants
- Ėratosfen
- Eratostene
- Eratosthène, approximately 276 B.C.-194 B.C.
Additional Information
Birth Date
- -0275~
Death Date
- -0193
Associated Locale
- Cyrene (Extinct city)
Associated Locale
- Alexandria (Egypt)
Associated Language
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Occupation
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Dragoni, G. Eratostene e l'apogeo della scienza greca, c1979:t.p. (Eratostene)
- found: Oxford classical dict., 1950:p. 336 (Eratosthenes of Cyrene; ca. 275-194 BC; head of Alexandrian Library; called himself Philologus)
- found: Encyc. brit., 1972:v. 8, p. 670 (Eratosthenes; ca. 276-194 BC; writer on math, geography, astronomy)
- found: Encyc. Amer., 1975:v. 10, p. 542 (Eratosthenes; ca. 276-195 BC)
- found: Collier's encyc., 1973:v. 9, p. 288 (Eratosthenes; ca. 275-194 BC)
- found: Le ciel, c1998:t.p. (Eratosthène)
LC Classification
- PA3970.E4-PA3970.E5
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Change Notes
- 1982-07-22: new
- 2014-01-08: revised
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