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The Sieve of Eratosthenes filters numbers, letting the composites fall through while the primes remain.
Eratosthenes
"Be kind, O Bacchus, take this empty pot offered to thee by Xenophon, the sot, Who, giving this, gives all that he has got" -Eratosthenes
THE EARLIEST KNOWN MEASUREMENTS WERE CALCULATED IN 200 BCE THE GREEK PHILOSOPHER ERATOSTHENES ACCORDING TO HIS CALCULATIONS THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF the earthWAS 39,600 KM....
It was around 200 BC.