Who was the first to measure the radius of earth?

Who was the first to measure the radius of earth?

  • (A) Galileo
  • (B) Eratosthenes
  • (C) Ptolemy
  • (D) Copernicus
Eratosthenes of Cyrene, a Greek mathematician and head of the Library of Alexandria, is known as the first person to scientifically measure the size of the Earth around 240 BCE. Using simple geometry and observations of the sun’s rays, he calculated the Earth’s circumference, which also made it possible to determine its radius and diameter.
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