Syene
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
He also had a figure for the distance between Syene and Alexandria: 5,000 stadia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eratosthenes knew that the distance between Alexandria and Syene was approximately 800 kilometers, because he hired a man to pace it out.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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