1 min readMay 5, 2020
I like this. I’ve often thought in general terms about people in X country seeing the same moon that I’m looking at. It never occurred to me to quantify the situation.
Do we actually see half of the celestial sphere? I think Copernicus made the argument in De Revolutionibus that we see less than that. He used that fact to argue for the vast distance of the stars. I could be remembering that wrong.