Eratosthenes (276194 B.C.)

Eratosthenes, surnamed the Philologist, a philosopher of Alexandria, born at Cyrene, 276 B.C.; becoming blind and tired of life, he starved himself to death at the age of 80; he ranks high among ancient astronomers; measured the obliquity of the ecliptic, and estimated the size of the earth (276194 B.C.).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Erato * Ercilla y Zuñiga
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Epithalamium
Epping Forest
Epsom
Equinoctial Points
Equinoxes
Equites, The
Erasmus, Desiderius
Erastianism
Erastus
Erato
Eratosthenes
Ercilla y Zuñiga
Erdgeist
Erdmann
Erebus
Erectheus
Erfurt
Ergot
Eric
Eric the Red
Ericsson, John

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Eratosthenes in Chalmer’s 1812 Dictionary of Biography