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Proposition 17. The diameter of the earth is to the diameter of the moon in a ratio greater than [2.51] that which 108 has to 43, but less than [3.16] that which 60 has to 19.

— Aristarchus of Samos On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (-250)

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Proposition 9. The diameter of the sun is greater than 18 times, but less than 20 times, the diameter of the moon.

On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (-250)

Proposition 6. The moon moves (in an orbit) lower than (that of) the sun, and, when it is halved, is distant less than a quadrant from the sun.

On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (-250)

Proposition 4. The circle which divides the dark and the bright portions in the moon is not perceptibly different from a great circle in the moon.

On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (-250)

Proposition 8. When the sun is totally eclipsed, the sun and the moon are then comprehended by one and the same cone which has its vertex at our eye.

On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (-250)

Proposition 2. If a sphere be illuminated by a sphere greater than itself, the illuminated portion of the former sphere will be greater than a hemisphere.

On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (-250)

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