Hipparchus on the Distance of the Sun

DOI10.1111/J.1600-0498.1969.TB00145.XMaRDI QIDQ5590764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. M. Swerdlow

Publication date 1969

Published in Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1969.tb00145.x

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• Rounding numbers: Ptolemy's calculation of the Earth-Sun distance
• Hipparchus' selenelion and two pairs of lunar eclipses revisited
• Martianus Capella's calculation of the size of the Moon
• An analysis of the \textit{Tabulae magistrales} by Giovanni Bianchini

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