Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun eratosthenes

1 sense of eratosthenes

Sense 1
Eratosthenes -- (Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC))
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)