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The ancient greeks were able to estimate the distance from the earth to the sun by using:.

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I learned this not too long ago too!

I think the answer you are looking for is parallax. Hipparchus used parallax to not only measure the distance from the sun, but also the moon. Although he was off my a couple hundred yards or so he actually measured the moon before the sun.

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