“Proposition 4. The circle which divides the dark and the bright portions in the moon is not perceptibly different from a great circle in the moon.”

p, 125
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)

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ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician

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