Praeparatio Evangelica (The Preparation of the Gospel)

Eusebius of Caesarea · c. 313-320 AD

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Section 52

CHAPTER LIII — OF THE MOON'S DISTANCES.

'EMPEDOCLES: the Moon is distant from the Sun twice as far as from the Earth.

'The Mathematical School: eighteen times as far.

'Eratosthenes: the Sun's distance from the Earth is four millions and eighty thousand stades: but the Moon's distance from the Earth seven hundred and eighty thousand stades.'

Praeparatio Evangelica (The Preparation of the Gospel): CHAPTER LIII — OF THE MOON'S DISTANCES. · Theoria