Astronomical Unit
Did you know in the 1700s astronomers used horizontal parallax to determine accurately the distance between the Sun and the Earth by using Venus traveling across the Sun.
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froggtongue · M
I would have figured the different types of eclipses would have been the way. I do know parallax is how they figured the distances to nearby stars.