275?-195? ; Gr. geographer, astronomer, & mathematician
See Eratosthenes in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ĕrˌə-tŏsˈthə-nēzˌ) Third century B.C.
Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer who devised a map of the world, estimated the circumference of the earth and the distance to the moon and the sun, and constructed a method for finding prime numbers.