Six stages in the history of the astronomical unit

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Jun 2001

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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 15-28 (2001).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Astronomical Unit

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Giovanni Antonio Rocca wrote "The problem of solar distance and parallax was one of the most important in astronomy, well worth a lifetimes work by any astronomer." (see Ricciolo, 1651:732). This paper briefly reviews the values obtained for the Earth-Sun distance throughout the history of astronomy, and divides the investigation of the astronomical unit into six stages. It is suggested that a similar six stages can be recognized in the history of many other fundamental parameters in our subject.

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