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Preparation for the Gospel

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903

Book 15, 53. Of Its 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.’