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Chapter Xxxi. How Far the Moon Is Removed From the Sun.

Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies · 46-120? Plutarch — chapter 63 of 144 · ~49 words · public domain

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Empedocles declares, that the distance of the moon from the sun is double her remoteness from the earth. The mathematicians, that her distance from the sun is eighteen times her distance from the earth. Eratosthenes, that the sun is remote from the earth seven hundred and eighteen thousand furlongs.

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