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    Re: Mysterious celestial measurement
    From: Luc Van den Borre
    Date: 2016 Jul 1, 17:03 +0200

    On 01/07/16 16:48, Greg Rudzinski wrote:
    > Early astronomer using a cross staff to measure star to star/planet
    > distances. 127 is a mystery. Is the star field correct ?
    
    The BBC did it! Or rather the Ancient Greeks...
    
    https://youtu.be/Q124C7W0WYA?t=15m12s
    
    It's probably a screenshot from that (very good) documentary on the
    Antikythera mechanism.
    
    Luc
    
    

       
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