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Chapter 4, Problem 2P
Galileo’s telescope showed him that Venus has a large angular diameter (61 arc seconds) when it is a crescent and a small angular diameter (10 arc seconds) when it is nearly full. Use the small-angle formula to find the ratio of its maximum distance to its minim um distance. Is this ratio compatible with the Ptolemaic shown on the right-hand page of Concept Art 4A? (Hint: See Reasoning with Numbers 3-1.)
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