1630Birth of Godart van GinkelGodert de Ginkel Athlone, 1st
Birth of Godart van Ginkel
Historical records for Netherlands in 1630, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Birth of Godart van Ginkel
Measured the distance between the Earth and the Sun using the method of Aristarchus of Samos, the value he calculated was 60% of the true value 243 times the distance to the Moon; the true value is about 384 times
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