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Aristarchos' myriad AU

Author:
A. G. Gomez (agg29@ou.ac.uk)
Illustration of how Aristarchos might have assessed the closest possible distance for a star to the accuracy reported by Archimedes in the Sandreckoner. Drag the lower bright dot along to vary the distance of a nearby star (which overlaps a very far-away star).

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