{
  "name": "Figures for the size of the earth in Pliny, Natural History, Book 2",
  "desc": "Every figure for the size of the earth, and the stadium length, that Pliny gives in Book 2 in the 1855 Bostock and Riley translation, one claim per row, with who it is attributed to and the chapter. Arithmetic in the qualifier column is ours.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "The Yardstick Almanac",
  "url": "https://theyardstickalmanac.com/scale/eratosthenes-earth-circumference/",
  "from": [
    "Pliny, Natural History, Book 2 (chapters 21, 75, 112, 113) and translators' note 261, trans. Bostock and Riley 1855 (Project Gutenberg #57493), public domain"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by The Yardstick Almanac from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Pliny, Natural History, trans. Bostock and Riley 1855 (public domain); computed 2026-11-01, CC BY 4.0"
  ]
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