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The 1769 Transit Of Venus
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Author : Doyce Blackman Nunis
language : en
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Release Date : 1982
The 1769 Transit Of Venus written by Doyce Blackman Nunis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Science categories.
The 1769 Transit Of Venus
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Author : Doyce B. Nunis
language : en
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Release Date : 1982
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1769 Transit Of Venus
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Author : David Rittenhouse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
1769 Transit Of Venus written by David Rittenhouse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Astronomy categories.
Transit Of Venus
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Author : Nick Lomb
language : en
Publisher: The Experiment
Release Date : 2012-04-03
Transit Of Venus written by Nick Lomb and has been published by The Experiment this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-03 with Nature categories.
Traces the impact on astronomy and science of the six times that the planet Venus has passed in front of the Sun since the discovery of the telescope in the seventeenth century, and discusses the 2012 transit, the last in this century.
The Transits Of Venus
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Author : Harry Woolf
language : en
Publisher: Ayer Company Pub
Release Date : 1981-01-01
The Transits Of Venus written by Harry Woolf and has been published by Ayer Company Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with Science categories.
Chasing Venus
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Author : Andrea Wulf
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Chasing Venus written by Andrea Wulf and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Science categories.
A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. • From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system—but only if they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.
Transit Of Venus
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Author : Nick Lomb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Transit Of Venus written by Nick Lomb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Astronomy categories.
On 8 June 2004 Venus crossed in front of the Sun and repeat one of the most famous events in science and one of particular importance to Australians. Transit of Venus explains the science behind this rare event and how it led Captain James Cook to map the east coast of Australia with quotes from his log books held by the State Library of NSW. It looks at the 1769 transit observed by Cook and the astronomer Charles Green from Tahiti, and the 1874 transit observed by Sydney Observatory astronomer Henry Chamberlain Russell and his team of illustrious observers from Sydney, from Woodford in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and from other observing stations; and it provides information on viewing the transit. The publication also features reproductions of the beautiful watercolours produced by the different observers to illustrate H C Russell's Observations of the transit of Venus, 9 December 1874.
Transits Of Venus
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Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Transits Of Venus written by Richard Anthony Proctor and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE TRANSIT OF 1769. The general impression among astronomers, after the observations of 1761 had been discussed, was that too much reliance had been placed on Delisle's method. ' Experience, ' wrote J. D. Cassini, later, in his ' Histoire du Passage de 1769, 'is our chief instructor; the fruit of its lessons indemnifies us for the value of the years they cost us. The principal end had been missed, in 1761, for want of observations in places where the durations differed sufficiently. It was essential not to experience a second time the same disadvantage.' Among the first statements published respecting the transit of 1769 was that by the ingenious Ferguson, who wrote as follows in 1762: ' On the 3rd of June, in the year 1769, Venus will again pass over the sun's disc, in such a manner as to afford a much easier and better method of investigating the sun's parallax than her transit in the year 1761 has done. But no part of Britain will be proper for observing that transit,1 so as to deduce anything with respect to the sun's parallax from it, because it will begin but a little before sunset, and will be quite over before two o'clock next morning. The apparent time of conjunction of the sun and Venus, according to Dr. Halley's tables, will be at thirteen minutes past ten o'clock at London, at which time the geocentric latitude of Venus will be full ten minutes of a degree north from the sun's centre; and therefore, as seen from the northern parts of the earth, Venus will be considerably depressed by a parallax of latitude on the sun's disc; on which account the visible duration of the transit will be .lengthened; and in the southern parts of the earth she will be elevated by a parallax of latitude on the sun, which will shorten...
Transits Of Venus Iau C196
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Author : International Astronomical Union. Colloquium
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-06-30
Transits Of Venus Iau C196 written by International Astronomical Union. Colloquium and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-30 with Science categories.
IAU C196 coincided with the 8 June 2004 transit of Venus, producing the exciting, eclectic mix that can be found in these proceedings: the amazing history of the English North-country astronomers of the seventeenth century; the AU at a precision of 1.4 m; the explanation for the infamous black drop effect; a possible Mayan observation of a transit of Venus in the thirteenth century; the vexed question of leap seconds and time scales; history, distances, parallaxes, the solar system at exquisite precision and future space missions that will revolutionise astronomy.
Venus In Transit
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Author : Eli Maor
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
Venus In Transit written by Eli Maor and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Science categories.
In 2004, Venus crossed the sun's face for the first time since 1882. Some did not bother to step outside. Others planned for years, reserving tickets to see the transit in its entirety. But even this group of astronomers and experience seekers were attracted not by scientific purpose but by the event's beauty, rarity, and perhaps--after this book--history. For previous sky-watchers, though, transits afforded the only chance to determine the all-important astronomical unit: the mean distance between earth and sun. Eli Maor tells the intriguing tale of the five Venus transits previously observed and the fantastic efforts made to record them. This is a story of heroes and cowards, of reputations earned and squandered, all told against a backdrop of phenomenal geopolitical and scientific change. With a novelist's talent for the details that keep readers reading late, Maor tells the stories of how Kepler's misguided theology led him to the laws of planetary motion; of obscure Jeremiah Horrocks, who predicted the 1639 transit only to die, at age 22, a day before he was to discuss the event with the only other human known to have seen it; of the unfortunate Le Gentil, whose decade of labor was rewarded with obscuring clouds, shipwreck, and the plundering of his estate by relatives who prematurely declared him dead; of David Rittenhouse, Father of American Astronomy, who was overcome by the 1769 transit's onset and failed to record its beginning; and of Maximilian Hell, whose good name long suffered from the perusal of his transit notes by a color-blind critic. Moving beyond individual fates, Maor chronicles how governments' participation in the first international scientific effort--the observation of the 1761 transit from seventy stations, yielding a surprisingly accurate calculation of the astronomical unit using Edmund Halley's posthumous directions--intersected with the Seven Years' War, British South Seas expansion, and growing American scientific prominence. Throughout, Maor guides readers to the upcoming Venus transits in 2004 and 2012, opportunities to witness a phenomenon seen by no living person and not to be repeated until 2117.
