The Aim concerning this Chapter discusses about three insolent assumptions for numerical abstraction of Eratosthenes’s experiment for calculating the edge of the Earth, and justifying all three arrogance from historical view for mathematics and learning education. Also it is main that the simplicity about the measurement of the dust's circumstance at the past of science. The first correct estimate of the Earth’s circumference was fashioned by the Hellenism physicist Eratosthenes (276-195 B.C.) in about 240 B.C. The simplicity and elegance of Eratosthenes’ calculation of the circumference of the Earth by arithmetic abstraction actions were an excellent instance of ancient Greek cleverness. Eratosthenes’s success was a triumph of logic and the experimental method, the procedure required that he adopt that Sun was so far continuously that its light attained Earth along parallel lines. That assumption, nevertheless, should lie by another set of measurements created by the old Hellenism, Aristarchus, namely, a coarse measurement of the relative diameters and distances of the Sun and Moon. Eratosthenes formulated the plain proportional recipe, by mathematic abstraction methods based on perfect circle and a simple numerical rule as well as in the geometry in this place world. The Earth must be a circle by a logical and practical argument of Aristotle, established the Greek word proportion including harmony and advantage of form.
Author(s) Details:
Jun-Young Oh,
Seoul
National University, Republic of Korea.
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