Syene
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The Sun’s rays come in parallel, but because Earth’s surface curves, a ray at Syene comes straight down whereas a ray at Alexandria makes an angle of 7° with the vertical.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
That means, in effect, that at Alexandria, Earth’s surface has curved away from Syene by 7° of 360°, or 1/50 of a full circle.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
This indicated that the Sun was directly over the well—meaning that Syene was on a direct line from the center of Earth to the Sun.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
This meant that the sun was directly over Syene at that time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eratosthenes asked himself how, at the same moment, a stick in Syene could cast no shadow and a stick in Alexandria, far to the north, could cast a pronounced shadow.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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