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During his time at the Library of Alexandria, Eratosthenes devised a calendar using his predictions about the ecliptic of the Earth. He calculated that there are 365 days in a year and that every fourth year there would be 366 days. [27] He was also very proud of his solution for Doubling the Cube. His motivation was that he wanted to produce ...
Shi Tiesheng (Chinese: 史铁生; 4 January 1951 – 31 December 2010) was a Chinese novelist, known for his story which was the basis of the film Life on a String.The China Daily stated regarding his essay about the park near where he lived, "Many critics have considered I and the Temple of Earth [] (Chinese: 我与地坛) as one of the best Chinese prose essays of the 20th century."
Although few details of his life are known, he is considered one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Regarded as the greatest mathematician of ancient history , and one of the greatest of all time, [ 4 ] Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitely small and the method of exhaustion ...
A journalist has arrived on a space station in hopes of photographing an alien ship. He encounters a station engineer who tells him about his past and issues him a warning. When the engineer was a young pre-med student he became obsessed with aliens despite watching similar obsessions result in death or permanent physical and mental harm.
The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis once lived on the island of Flores, Indonesia, around 50,000 years ago.But one professor thinks the apelike ...
Xeniades liked his spirit and hired Diogenes to tutor his children. As tutor to Xeniades's two sons, [39] it is said that he lived in Corinth for the rest of his life, which he devoted to preaching the doctrines of virtuous self-control. There are many stories about what actually happened to him after his time with Xeniades's two sons.
The original calculations assumed that the Earth has the same density throughout - and the gravitational force changes as you approach the center, much like the weight of a spring that bounces up ...
A terrifying and quite disgusting story of a spider that burrowed its way inside an Australian man's abdomen. Dylan Thomas was vacationing with a friend in Bali, when the friend pointed out a ...