ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -History records that in the 6th century B.C. Thales of Miletus measured the height of the great pyramid at Giza by comparing its shadow to the shadow of his staff [3].

Detailed explanation-2: -Like many tourists, Thales wanted to know the height of the Great Pyramid. He couldn’t find anyone to answer his question, so he set out to measure it himself. His method was so clever that people still talk about it. Thales decided to discover the height of the pyramid by measuring its shadow.

Detailed explanation-3: -Euclid, Greek Eukleides, (flourished c. 300 bce, Alexandria, Egypt), the most prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity, best known for his treatise on geometry, the Elements.