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On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon: Media

treatise by Aristarchus of Samos

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Moon, Earth, and Sun diagrammed in Aristarchus's On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
Diagram of (from top to bottom) the Moon, Earth, and Sun in a 1572 edition of Aristarchus...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (image no. LC-USZ62-95174)