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The Day the World Discovered the Sun
An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race To Track the Transit of Venus
By Anderson, Mark
- ISBN
- 9780306820380
- Publisher
- Da Capo
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Reviewed on June 1, 2012 | Science and Technology
In 1769, in one of the earliest examples of "team science," expeditions were organized to collect observational data of the transit of Venus—which occurs when the planet's orbit crosses between the Sun and Earth—from several points on the globe. Spurred by the data from Venus's 1761 transit, the natural philosophers of the day knew that the 1769 transit measurements were key to calculating with greater ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
