Eratosthenes refused to accept the popular understanding of any subject and sought always to find out the truth of a matter for himself.
Calculated Earth's circumference
Describing his skeptical and independent approach to knowledge, influenced by his Academic Skepticism education.
3rd century BCE (description of his methodology)
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