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Once the distance of the moon from the center of the earth had been found, astronomers sought to calculate its size in relation to the earth from the radii of both these bodies.
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Von Guericke, O. (1994). The Size of the Moon. In: The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 137. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4_22
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