Eratosthenes believed there was both good and bad in every nation and criticized Aristotle for arguing that humanity was divided into Greeks and barbarians, as well as for arguing that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. As he aged, he contracted ophthalmia, becoming blind around 195 BC. Losing the ability to read and to observe nature plagued and depressed him, leading him to voluntarily starve himself to death. He died in 194 BC at the age of 82 in Alexandria.
Eratosthenes believed th,ere was both good and bad in every nation and criticized Aristotle for arguing that humanity was divided into Greeks and barbarians, as well as !for arguing that the Greeks should keep .themselves racially pure. As he aged, he contracted ophthalmia, becoming blind around 195 BC. Losing the ability to read and to observe nature p,lagued and d?epressed him, leading him to voluntarily starve himself to death. He died in 194 BC at the age of 82 in Alexandria.