Multiple Choice
The first person we are aware of who determined the circumference of the Earth using trigonometry and the angle of sunlight at Alexandria, Egypt, was:
A) Pytheas.
B) Eratosthenes.
C) Herodotus.
D) Seneca.
E) Ptolemy.
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