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With a rock it marks the point (B) and with another stone marks the spot where it finishes its shadow (D). It then measures the length of the shadow of the tree and its shadow, that is, the segments AB and CD. Now multiplying the length of the shadow of the tree with its height and divided by the length of his own shadow, you get the height of the tree!

In practice: AF = (X AB CE): CD

Herodotus measured the height of the obelisk in Egypt with this system already 2000 years before Christ.

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