2.6 · 1017m (27 light years) - distance from Earth to β Comae Berenices, a star approximately as bright as our sun. Its faintness gives us an idea how our sun would appear when viewed from even so close a distance as this.
... in 1486. The first English translation
(1502) was by William Atkinson and Margaret,
mother of Henry VII., who did the fourth book.
Translations appeared in ...