Sugar is added to all sorts of foods and drinks to make them taste sweet or to preserve their flavour. And itâs not just found in products youâd expect, such as cakes, biscuits, fizzy drinks and desserts. Youâll also find it in things like baked beans, bread and cereal.
When did Eratosthenes live and die? Eratosthenes was born in Cyrene, Shahhat, Libya in 276 BC and died in Alexandria, Egypt in 194 BC. He was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer, who eventually beca â¦ me the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria.
Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth without leaving Egypt. Eratosthenes knew that at local noon on the summer solstice in the Ancient Egyptian city of Swenet (known in ancient Greek as Syene, and now as Aswan) on the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun would appear at the zenith, directly overhead.