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On the distances between sun, moon, and earth according to Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Reinhold
Janice Adrienne Henderson
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Abstract
A detailed analysis of the geocentric distances of the sun and moon as found in Ptolemy's Amalgest, in both the manuscript version and the Nuremberg edition of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus, and in a manuscript of Erasmus Reinhold (Commentarius in opus Revolutionum Copernici) in which he comments on these calculations as found in both the Amalgest and De Revolutionibus