A Man of Learning and Discovering

history channel documentary 2015 Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician and geographer, however beside this he was an artist, cosmologist and music scholar. As though that doesn't sound great, he was likewise the main custodian at the Library of Alexandria - the capital of information and learning in the antiquated world. In any case, his most important commitment and legacy to humankind is the way that the designed the control of topography, including a great deal of the phrasing utilized today. Truth be told he truly concocted the word geography.A real disclosure in his profession was computing the perimeter of the Earth. Because of this he could get a considerable measure of information about the Earth while never leaving Egypt. He found a lot about its size and shape and he even made a couple portrays. In any case, he additionally based a great deal of his suppositions taking into account other individuals' drawings and encounters. In the Library of Alexandria he had admittance to different travel books, which contained different things of data and representations of the world that should have been sorted out in some composed arrangement. These were the missing bits of information that he expected to finish his perspective of the Earth.

So where does the name geology originate from? All things considered, it originates from the word geographia, lit. "earth portrayal" and is firmly fixing to his three-volume work Geographika. Eratosthenes depicted and mapped the whole known world in this work and he likewise isolated the world into five general atmosphere zones.Eratosthenes put covering lines over the surface of his guide. On account of this network of parallels and meridians he could interface each spot on the planet and generally figure the separation between any two focuses. In his Geographika more than 400 urban areas and their areas were appeared, something that no one had done before him. This is an imperative record, particularly for students of history later down the line as they could find the remaining parts of numerous urban areas that were accepted to be lost.