Cosmic Distance Ladder History
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Ideas ‘of pure genius’ – how astronomers have measured the Universe across history | Aeon Videos

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This video details how humans have climbed the cosmic distance ladder’ to calculate sizes and distances in the cosmos.
Presented by Terence Tao , a Fields medalist and professor of mathematics at the University of California , Los Angeles , and the video essayist Grant Sanderson (aka 3Blue1Brown).
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