˜Theœ Transit of Venus, 1874 and 1882
Author : George Biddell Airy
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Page : 23 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : George Biddell Airy
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Page : 23 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : George Biddell Airy
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Venus (Planet)
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 1869
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Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Venus (Planet)
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Author : Great Britain. Committee on arrangements for the observation of the transit of Venus, 1882
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Venus (Planet)
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : United States Naval Observatory
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Astronomical photography
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Author : Jessica Ratcliff
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822981858
In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of "big science" in late-Victorian Britain.
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230759951
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: 1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti, 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Campbell Island, 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawaii, Anders Johan Lexell, Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens, Christian Mayer (astronomer), David Rittenhouse, Guillaume Le Gentil, Jeremiah Dixon, Jeremiah Horrocks, Mikhail Lomonosov, The Transit of Venus (Doctor Who audio), Transit of Venus, 1639, Transit of Venus, 1874, Transit of Venus, 2004, Transit of Venus, 2012, Transit of Venus (opera), Transit of Venus (play), Transit of Venus March. Excerpt: A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth (or another planet), becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2012 lasted 6 hours and 40 minutes). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon. While the diameter of Venus is more than 3 times that of the Moon, Venus appears smaller, and travels more slowly across the face of the Sun, because it is much farther away from Earth. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that generally repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. The periodicity is a reflection of the fact that the orbital periods of Earth and Venus are close to 8:13 and 243:395 commensurabilities. The last transit of Venus was on 5 and 6 June 2012, and was the last Venus transit of the 21st century; the prior transit took place on 8 June 2004. The previous pair of transits were in December 1874 and December 1882. The next transits of Venus...
Author : George Biddell Airy (Sir).)
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Page : 23 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 1882
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