Tower of Alexandria?!?!?!? PLEASE HELP!!!!?
I Need to know the height of the tower of Alexandria in miles. here is some help… In about 240 B.C., a greek scholar named Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth using shadows and the distance between two cities.The distance between Aswan and Alexandria is approximately 529 miles. Eratosthenes calculated the Earth’s radius (R) to be 4.212.5 miles. Use the ratio d/h = 529/4,212.5 to find the height of the tower of Alexandria (H).
PLEASE HELP ME ASAP!!!!!!
There are two detailed descriptions made of the lighthouse in the 10th century A.D. by Moorish travelers Idrisi and Yusuf Ibn al-Shaikh. According to their accounts, the building was 300 cubits high. Because the cubit measurement varied from place to place, this could mean that the Pharos stood anywhere from 450 to 600 feet in height, although the lower figure is more likely.http://library.thinkquest.org/J002604/Lighthouse.html
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