From: sportschic92@hotmail.com
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 14:14:34 PST
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Alex Hope Elementary School Location: Walnut Grove/Langley/British Columbia/Canada Email Address: sportschic92@hotmail.com Experimenter: Sarah Johnston Latitude 49.15 Longitude: 122.6 Distance to Equator: 5470.6 Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.3 Calculated Earth circumference: 39168.78 Comments: I can't believe how Eratosthenes figured it out with almost no technology!! Eratosthenes was very smart! I think this is a great experiment to learn many things.... And I can't believe that Eratosthenes invented this more than 2,000 years ago! I didn't know that there were that many years.