History of geodesy
... of a well in the town of Syene (Aswan). Figure 1. At the same time ... the summer Tropic Zone (Tropic of Cancer)- Syene was therefore concluded to be on this ... 2) the linear distance between Alexandria and Syene was 500 miles; (3) Alexandria and Syene lay on a direct northsouth line. From ... arc, the linear distance between Alexandria and Syene was 1/50 of the circumference ...
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User:Rktect/degrees
... circles of two cities (e.g. Alexandria/Syene, Syene/Meroe) is based on a traversing technique ... Nile near what is now Aswan (called Syene by the Greeks). This concurrence was used ... measure the size of the Earth. From Syene, it would have been fairly straightforward to ... could then have been logically inferred that Syene must lie 24 (1/15th of ...
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User:Egil/Sandbox/rktect/Mille passus
... circles of two cities (e.g. Alexandria/Syene, Syene/Meroe) is based on a traversing technique ... Nile near what is now Aswan (called Syene by the Greeks). This concurrence was used ... measure the size of the Earth. From Syene, it would have been fairly straightforward to ... could then have been logically inferred that Syene must lie 24 (1/15th of ...
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Talk:Great circle
... circles of two cities (e.g. Alexandria/Syene, Syene/Meroe) is based on a traversing technique ... Nile near what is now Aswan (called Syene by the Greeks). This concurrence was used ... measure the size of the Earth. From Syene, it would have been fairly straightforward to ... could then have been logically inferred that Syene must lie 24 (1/15th of ...
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Eratosthenes
... the Sun at noon in Alexandria and Syene (now Aswan, Egypt). Measurement of the Earth ... at the zenith, directly overhead — though Syene was in fact slightly north of the ... Assuming that Alexandria was due north of Syene- Alexandria is in fact on a more ... concluded that the distance from Alexandria to Syene must be 7/360 of the total ... can use his method using correct measurements. Syene is not exactly on the Tropic ...
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Beam of the Earth   (translated from Italian)
... to acquaintance of the fact that to Syene (puts into effect it them Assuan ), to ... In beyond it assumed that Alexandria and Syene were found on the same one meridiano ... o} where D :distance between Alexandria (Syene and point) (S point), having for hypothesis ... consider parallels the beams on Alexandria and Syene the two cities find on the same ... truth they differ in longitude of 3°) Syene is situated exactly on Tropico of ...
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Itrw
... at the zenith, directly overhead — though Syene was in fact slightly north of the ... Herodotus giving the distance between Alexandria and Syene and information to the effect that the ... Assuming that Alexandria was due north of Syene- Alexandria is in fact on a more ... reading that the distance from Alexandria to Syene was 5000 stadia of 300 Egyptian royal ...
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Refectories Ernst   (translated from German)
... 22. January 1843 in the desert of Syene) was in Norwegian Sprinter . Refectories Ernst drove ... run to the sources Nile (?) southern of Syene at that Ruhr. Web on the left ... 1843 DYING PLACE in the desert of Syene
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Aswan   (translated from German)
... n, Eswan for the gate; that antique Syene) is a city at the right Nilufer ... the sun on the longest day in Syene keinen Schatten warf, hier Höhle des zog ... el-Hawa those are antique graves of Syene, opposite toward the south a quantity of ...
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Asuán   (translated from Spanish)
... antiquity it took the name of Siena (Syene) from which it derives Asuán (Syene? Ace Syene? Ace Suen? Ace Suán? Asuán ). Its fame ...
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