Comparative dimensions of the planets

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

Louis XIV visits the Académie des Sciences

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Comparative dimensions of the planets
S. Battaglia and G. Miglietta

This exhibit sets today's values against the relative dimensions of the Earth with respect to the planets, the Moon and the Sun according to the estimates formulated by Tycho Brahe in 1600 (which are close to those formulated by Ptolemy) and by Christiaan Huygens in 1659.