semidiameters

The distance of the earth's orbit from the sun is above 20,000 semidiameters of the earth; so that if a cannon ball should come from the sun with the same velocity it hath when discharged from the mouth of a cannon, it would be 25 years in coming to the earth.

A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses

But it so happened that Picard shortly afterward executed more correctly a new measurement of a degree; this changed the estimated magnitude of the earth, and the distance of the moon, which was measured in earth-semidiameters.

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science 1881

But it so happened that Picard shortly afterward executed more correctly a new measurement of a degree; this changed the estimated magnitude of the earth, and the distance of the moon, which was measured in earth-semidiameters.

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science John William Draper 1846

The first celestial object to which Galileo applied his telescope was the moon, which, to use his own words, appeared as near as if it had been distant only two semidiameters of the earth.

The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler David Brewster 1824

Suppose, for example, that looking at the moon I should say it were fifty or sixty semidiameters of the earth distant from me.

A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley 1719

In the case of our atmosphere under the law of gravitation, the density of air, (supposing it to be infinitely expansible,) at a height only of ten semidiameters of the earth above its surface, would have only a density equal to the density of one cubic inch of such air we breathe, if that cubic inch was to be expanded so as to fill a globular space whose centre should be the earth, and whose surface should take inside the whole visible creation.

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

For in case I am carried from the place where I stand directly towards the moon, it is manifest the object varies, still as I go on; and by the time that I am advanced fifty or sixty semidiameters of the earth, I shall be so far from being near a small, round, luminous flat that I shall perceive nothing like it; this object having long since disappeared, and if I would recover it, it must be by going back to the earth from whence I set out.

A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley 1719