Starting with Eratosthenes’ clever calculation of Earth’s circumference using shadows and wells, early astronomers used geometric reasoning and eclipses to estimate distances to the Moon and Sun—even without modern instruments.
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- Eratosthenes Earth circumference
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- Kepler elliptical orbits
- measuring universe scale
- Moon phase distance method
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- Sun position estimation
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