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==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * Aujac, G. (2001). ''Eratosthène de Cyrène, le pionnier de la géographie''. Paris: Édition du CTHS. 224 p. * {{cite book |last=Bulmer-Thomas |first=Ivor |title=Selections Illustlating the History of Greek Mathematics |date=1939–1940 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}} * {{cite book |last=Dicks |first=D. R. |year=1991 |chapter=Eratosthenes |title=Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians |volume=2 (Dickson–Khwārizmī) |pages=681–686 |location=New York |publisher=Scribner |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0002unse_k8v0/page/681/mode/1up |chapter-url-access=limited }} * {{cite journal | last1 = Diller | first1 = A | year = 1934 | title = Geographical Latitudes in Eratosthenes, Hipparchus and Posidonius | journal = Klio | volume = 27 | issue = 3| pages = 258–269 | doi = 10.1524/klio.1934.27.27.258 | s2cid = 194449299 }} * {{cite journal |first=A. V. |last=Dorofeeva |title=Eratosthenes (ca. 276–194 B.C.) |language=ru |journal=Mat. V Shkole |issue=4 |date=1988 |page=i}} * {{cite journal |first=J. |last=Dutka |title=Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth reconsidered |journal=Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. |volume=46 |issue=1 |date=1993 |pages=55–66 |doi=10.1007/BF00387726|bibcode=1993AHES...46...55D |s2cid=119522892 }} * {{cite journal |first=B. A.|last=El'natanov|title=A brief outline of the history of the development of the sieve of Eratosthenes |language=ru |journal=Istor.-Mat. Issled. |volume=27 |date=1983 |pages=238–259}} * {{cite journal | last1 = Fischer | first1 = I | year = 1975 | title = Another look at Eratosthenes' and Posidonius' determinations of the Earth's circumference | journal = Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society | volume = 16 | pages = 152–167 | bibcode=1975QJRAS..16..152F}} * {{cite journal |first1=D. H. |last1=Fowler |title=Eratosthenes' ratio for the obliquity of the ecliptic |journal=Isis |volume=74 |issue=274 |date=1983 |pages=556–562 |doi=10.1086/353361 |last2=Rawlins |first2=Dennis|s2cid=144617495 }} * {{cite journal |last=Fraser |first=P. M. |title=Eratosthenes of Cyrene |journal=Proceedings of the British Academy |date=1970 |volume=56 |pages=175–207}} * {{cite book |last=Fraser |first=P. M. |title=Ptolemaic Alexandria |date=1972 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford}} * Fuentes González, P. P., "[http://hdl.handle.net/10481/27536 Ératosthène de Cyrène]", in R. Goulet (ed.), ''Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques'', vol. III, Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2000, pp. 188–236. * Geus K. (2002). [https://www.academia.edu/attachments/12860252/download_file ''Eratosthenes von Kyrene. Studien zur hellenistischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftgeschichte'']. München: Verlag C.H. Beck. (Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte. Bd. 92) X, 412 S. * {{cite journal |first=B. R. |last=Goldstein |title=Eratosthenes on the "measurement" of the Earth |journal=Historia Math. |volume=11 |issue=4 |date=1984 |pages=411–416 |doi=10.1016/0315-0860(84)90025-9|doi-access=free }} * {{cite journal |first=E. |last=Gulbekian |title=The origin and value of the stadion unit used by Eratosthenes in the third century B.C |journal=[[Archive for History of Exact Sciences]] |volume=37 |issue=4 |date=1987 |pages=359–363 |doi=10.1007/BF00417008|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00417008 | url-access=subscription|jstor=41133819 |s2cid=115314003 }} * Honigmann, E. (1929). ''Die sieben Klimata und die πολεις επισημοι''. Eine Untersuchung zur Geschichte der Geographie und Astrologie in Altertum und Mittelalter. Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung. 247 S. * {{cite journal |first=G. |last=Knaack |title=Eratosthenes |journal=Pauly–Wissowa VI |date=1907 |pages=358–388}} * {{cite journal |first=F. |last=Manna |title=The Pentathlos of ancient science, Eratosthenes, first and only one of the "primes" |language=it |journal=Atti Accad. Pontaniana |series=New Series |volume=35 |date=1986 |pages=37–44}} * {{cite journal|first1=A.|last1=Muwaf|first2=A. N. |last2=Philippou |title=An Arabic version of Eratosthenes writing on mean proportionals |journal=J. Hist. Arabic Sci. |volume=5 |issue=1–2 |date=1981 |pages=147–175}} * {{cite book |last=Nicastro |first=Nicholas |title=Circumference: Eratosthenes and the ancient quest to measure the globe |location=New York |publisher=St. Martin's Press |date=2008 |isbn=978-0-312-37247-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312372477 }} * {{MacTutor Biography |id=Eratosthenes}} * Marcotte, D. (1998). "La climatologie d'Ératosthène à Poséidonios: genèse d'une science humaine". G. Argoud, J.Y. Guillaumin (eds.). ''Sciences exactes et sciences appliquées à Alexandrie (IIIe siècle av J.C. – Ier ap J.C.)''. Saint Etienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint Etienne: 263–277. * McPhail, Cameron (2011). [http://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10523/1713/McPhailCameron2011MA.pdf?sequence=1 ''Reconstructing Eratosthenes' Map of the World: a Study in Source Analysis''. A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Master of Arts at the University of Otago]. Dunedin, New Zealand. * {{cite book |last=Pfeiffer |first=Rudolf |title=History of Classical Scholarship From the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofclassic0000pfei_r5h8 |url-access=registration |date=1968 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford}} * {{cite journal |first=D. |last=Rawlins |title=Eratosthenes' geodesy unraveled: was there a high-accuracy Hellenistic astronomy |journal=Isis |volume=73 |date=1982 |pages=259–265 |doi=10.1086/352973 |issue=2|s2cid=120730515 }} * {{cite journal |first=D.|last=Rawlins |title=The Eratosthenes – Strabo Nile map. Is it the earliest surviving instance of spherical cartography? Did it supply the 5000 stades arc for Eratosthenes' experiment? |journal=Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. |volume=26 |issue=3 |date=1982 |pages=211–219|doi=10.1007/BF00348500 |s2cid=118004246 }} * {{cite journal |first=D. |last=Rawlins |title=Eratosthenes's large Earth and tiny universe |journal=DIO |volume=14 |date=2008 |pages=3–12 |url=http://www.dioi.org/vols/we0.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030220751/http://www.dioi.org/vols/we0.pdf |archive-date=2008-10-30 |url-status=live |bibcode=2008DIO....14....3R }} * {{cite book |last=Roller |first=Duane W. |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |date=2010 |title=Eratosthenes' Geography: Fragments collected and translated, with commentary and additional material |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8peKyWK_SWsC |isbn=978-0-691-14267-8}} * Rosokoki, A. (1995), ''Die Erigone des Eratosthenes. Eine kommentierte Ausgabe der Fragmente'', Heidelberg: C. Winter-Verlag * Shcheglov, D.A. (2004/2006). "Ptolemy's System of Seven Climata and Eratosthenes' Geography". ''Geographia Antiqua'' '''13''': 21–37. * {{cite journal | last1 = Shcheglov | first1 = D.A. | year = 2006 | title = Eratosthenes' Parallel of Rhodes and the History of the System of Climata | url = https://www.academia.edu/191065 | journal = Klio | volume = 88 | issue = 2| pages = 351–359 | doi=10.1524/klio.2006.88.2.351| s2cid = 190529073 }} * {{cite book |last=Strabo |title=The Geography of Strabo |date=1917 |publisher=Putnam |location=New York |others=Horace Leonard Jones, trans|title-link=Geographica }} * {{cite journal |first=C. M. |last=Taisbak |title=Eleven eighty-thirds. Ptolemy's reference to Eratosthenes in Almagest I.12 |journal=Centaurus |volume=27 |issue=2 |date=1984 |pages=165–167 |doi=10.1111/j.1600-0498.1984.tb00766.x |bibcode=1984Cent...27..165T }} * Thalamas, A. (1921). ''La géographe d'Ératosthène''. Versailles. * {{cite book |first=E. P. |last=Wolfer |title=Eratosthenes von Kyrene als Mathematiker und Philosoph |publisher=Groningen-Djakarta |date=1954}} {{refend}}
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