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Why did Aristarchus make his measurements of the Sun’s
Chapter 1, Problem 7RQ(choose chapter or problem)
QUESTION:
Why did Aristarchus make his measurements of the Sun’s distance at the time of a half Moon?
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QUESTION:
Why did Aristarchus make his measurements of the Sun’s distance at the time of a half Moon?
ANSWER:Aristarchus made his measurements about the distance of sun in the time of half moon. There is a great and very deep insight of his for this reasoning. We know that when you are looking at the half moon while the sun is still there in the sky, then the sun light must be incidenting on earth and moon at right angles. That’s an extremely good intuition made by Aristar