![]() ![]() Invented by Hailey in the nineteenth century and used as a basis for many other calculations about our solar system.We can only imagine that Hickson must have gritted his teeth when he set himself the challenge of proving Dr. ![]() The popular estimate of approximately ninety-three million miles appeared to be a mistake, as inconceivable as it seemed.Hickson pored through the methods that his predecessors had used to calculate the distance and the accounts of their work, searching for the means to disprove his theory but instead he found a mistake in Dr. The giants of astronomy had miscalculated the distance of the sun from the Earth, it was closer than we ever thought. ![]() At the turn of the twentieth century, Gerrard Hickson stumbled upon a discovery which convinced him of something shocking. ![]()
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