Measuring the universe : cosmic dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley / Albert van Helden.

On the distances between sun, moon and earth according to Ptolemy, Copernicus and Reinhold / by Janice Adrienne Henderson.

Measuring the universe : the historic quest to quantify space / Kitty Ferguson.

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Cosmological distances

Works from the collections

Measuring the universe : cosmic dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley / Albert van Helden.

On the distances between sun, moon and earth according to Ptolemy, Copernicus and Reinhold / by Janice Adrienne Henderson.

Measuring the universe : the historic quest to quantify space / Kitty Ferguson.