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echo: barktopus
to: Rich Gauszka
from: Phil Payne
date: 2007-05-06 07:19:10
subject: Re: Republicans & Darwin
From: "Phil Payne" 

> Not really Eratosthenes (276-194 BC) calculated the circumference of the
> earth. He also measured the tilt of the Earth's axis and the distance to
the
> sun and the moon.

Alexander Thom (Megalithic Lunar Observatories) suggests the Orcadians knew
about lunar standstills fifteen hundred years before that.

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