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LIBER II · CAPUT 21

OF THE DISTANCES OF THE STARS

OF THE DISTANCES OF THE STARS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
OF THE DISTANCES OF THE STARS · EDITORIAL PLATE II.21 · modern editorial plate
OF THE DISTANCES OF THE STARS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Intervalla quoque siderum a terra multi indagare temptarunt, et solem abesse a luna undeviginti partes quantam lunam ipsam a terra prodiderunt. Pythagoras vero, vir sagacis animi, a terra ad lunam CXXVI stadiorum esse collegit, ad solem ab ea duplum, inde ad duodecim signa triplicatum, in qua sententia et Gallus Sulpicius fuit noster.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

Many persons have attempted to discover the distance of the stars from the earth, and they have published as the result, that the sun is nineteen times as far from the moon, as the moon herself is from the earth. Pythagoras, who was a man of a very sagacious mind, computed the distance from the earth to the moon to be 126,000 furlongs, that from her to the sun is double this distance, and that it is three times this distance to the twelve signs; and this was also the opinion of our countryman, Gallus Sulpicius.