Aristarchus of Samos Quote

The diameter of the moon is less than 2/45ths, but greater than 1/30th of the distance of the centre of the moon from our eye.

Proposition 11

On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)


The diameter of the moon is less than 2/45ths, but greater than 1/30th of the distance of the centre of the moon from our eye.

The diameter of the moon is less than 2/45ths, but greater than 1/30th of the distance of the centre of the moon from our eye.

The diameter of the moon is less than 2/45ths, but greater than 1/30th of the distance of the centre of the moon from our eye.

The diameter of the moon is less than 2/45ths, but greater than 1/30th of the distance of the centre of the moon from our eye.