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The Cosmos segment where Sagan explains Earth’s curvature with sticks and shadows


"How could it be, that at the same moment, a stick in Syene would cast no shadow and a stick in Alexandria, 800 km to the north, would cast a very definite shadow?" Sagan asked.

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