Eratosthenes of Cyrene
c. 276 BCE–c. 194 BCE · Alexandria
Head of the Library of Alexandria; measured the circumference of the earth and founded scientific geography and chronology.
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AlexandriaEgypt
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About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
In Alexandria at the same time
Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Apollonius Rhodius, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Polybius
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Eratosthenes of Cyrene’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Lycophron, Callimachus, Erasistratus of Ceos, Apollonius Rhodius, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Polybius, Euclid
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Eratosthenes of Cyrene’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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