Monthly Archives: April 2023

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Viresh Ratnakar

The top three solvers were: (1) Venkatraghavan S, (2) Cobibh, (3) Debasmita Basu. Congratulations!

We had a lot of fun doing this, and hope some fun was had by solvers as well. We would, of course, welcome continued feedback and discussion.

Thanks!

2023-04-20, 21:50 0 boosts 0 favorites

@viresh Oh, just couldn’t see that last thing, D’oh! I’ll take 4th/1st grid-solver. Fun, cheers to you both! 🙂

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Peter Gainsford

@TheVoidTLMB Thanks for spotting that! I've simply removed the extra phrase.

2023-04-17, 13:42 0 boosts 0 favorites

@KiwiHellenist 👍

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Peter Gainsford

How Eratosthenes measured the earth. Part 1: the discovery of the earth's shape.

Before 400 BCE, everyone was a flat-earther. Afterwards, it gets hard to find people who weren't aware that the earth is round.

A look at early Greek thought on the shape of the cosmos, the earth's location, and the angle of the ecliptic, leading up to the first estimate of the earth's size in Aristotle.

(Reading time: 18 minutes)
kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/202

2023-04-17, 06:00 7 boosts 4 favorites

@KiwiHellenist Is "…failed theories are still part of the process of dis." missing a "-covery"?