Who was the first to calculate the approximate diameter of the Earth?
¿Cómo medimos el COSMOS? (Con Aldo de El Robot de Platón)

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Aristarchus of Samos
Eratosthenes
Hipparchus of Nicaea
James Gregory
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What phenomenon allows us to calculate distances by observing the apparent shift of an object when viewed from different positions?
Diffraction
Parallax
Refraction
Eclipse
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Aristarchus of Samos used which celestial event to deduce the distance to the Sun?
Half Moon
Solar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
Transit of Venus
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What celestial event did James Gregory and Edmund Haley propose to use for measuring the distance to the Sun?
Lunar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse
Transit of Venus
Comet Passage
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun as calculated using modern methods?
384,400 km
149,597,870 km
127,000 km
391,878 km
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