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These most vertical rays can occur anywhere between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn. The tropic of cancer's most vertical rays occur at noon on the summer solstice, and vice versa.

There is a well in Cyene, a city in southern Egypt, where the sunlight casts no shadow at high noon. Eratosthenes the Greek, a librarian at Alexandria, used this fact to calculate the circumference of the earth.

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