On Sizes and Distances - Information from Answers.com
On Sizes and Distances [of the Sun and Moon] (Περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ
ἀποστημάτων ... Hipparchus tries by conjecturing the parallax and the distance of
the sun to ...
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Hipparchus - Information from Answers.com
Hipparchus also undertook to find the distances and sizes of the Sun and the
Moon.
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Aristarchus On the Sizes and Distances - Wikipedia, the free ...
On the Sizes and Distances (of the Sun and Moon) (Περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ .... was
later used by Hipparchus, who estimated the mean distance to the moon as 67 ...
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Greek astronomy - Information from Answers.com
Hipparchus wrote another book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
, which has not survived. Both Aristarchus and Hipparchus drastically ...
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Almagest - Information from Answers.com
Hipparchus wrote about trigonometry, but because his works are no longer extant
, ... the motion of the lunar apogee, and the sizes and distances of the Sun and ...
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Aristarchus of Samos - Information from Answers.com
Main article: Aristarchus On the Sizes and Distances ... Both are close to the
values later used by Hipparchus and Ptolemy, and the precession indicated is ...
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Eratosthenes: Biography from Answers.com
He concluded that the distance from Syene to Alexandria must be 1/50th part of ...
of the earth and the size and distance from the earth of the sun and the moon. ....
of Ancient Geography, 1883; D. Dicks, Geographical Fragments of Hipparchus, ...
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Ptolemy: Biography from Answers.com
Ptolemy naturally relied on his predecessors, especially Hipparchus. A work of
..... This was one of the early statements of size-distance invariance as a cause of ...
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