The first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth and coin the word "geography" was Eratosthenes. He was a Greek mathematician, geographer, and astronomer who lived during the third century BCE. Eratosthenes is well-known for his measurement of the Earth's circumference using the angles of shadows in different locations and for being one of the first to use the term "geography."
Who was the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth and coined the word “geography”?
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Anaximander
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Eratosthenes
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Ptolemy
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Zheng He
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