In the Town of Syene (which is above Alexandria fifty Stadia), at Noon, in the midst of Summer, there is no Shadow: and that for Experiment thereof, a Well that was sunk in the Ground was lighted to the Bottom; whereby it appeareth that the Sun at that Time is directly over that Place.


Pliny's Natural History. In Thirty-seven Books, Book II, Chapter LXXIII (p. 116), Printed for the Club by G. Barclay. 1847-1849

Pliny the Elder Quotes

In the Town of Syene (which is above Alexandria fifty Stadia), at Noon, in the midst of Summer, there is no Shadow: and that for Experiment thereof,...

In the Town of Syene (which is above Alexandria fifty Stadia), at Noon, in the midst of Summer, there is no Shadow: and that for Experiment thereof,...

In the Town of Syene (which is above Alexandria fifty Stadia), at Noon, in the midst of Summer, there is no Shadow: and that for Experiment thereof,...

In the Town of Syene (which is above Alexandria fifty Stadia), at Noon, in the midst of Summer, there is no Shadow: and that for Experiment thereof,...