Fitness and Wellness   Explorations an Introduction to Astronomy          Thomas T. Arny
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Chapter 1, Figure 18

Figure 1.18

Aristarchus used the size of the Earth's shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse to estimate the relative size of the Earth and Moon.

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