Book ID: CBB000400973

The Transit of Venus: The Quest to Find the True Distance of the Sun (2001)

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Sellers, David (Author)


MagaVelda Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: 222 pp.; ill.; maps; bib.; index
Language: English

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000400973/

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Authors & Contributors
Sheehan, William
Barton, William M.
Wulf, Andrea
Westfall, John Edward
Tobin, William
Steel, Duncan
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Acta Historica Astronomiae
Science and Education
Perspectives on Science
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
University of New South Wales Press
Prometheus Books
Princeton University Press
Pickering & Chatto
Da Capo Press
Awa Press
Concepts
Venus
Eclipses; transits; occultations; conjunctions
Astronomy
Observation
Scientific expeditions
Astronomical distances
People
Loureiro, João de
Wales, William
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilevich
Horrocks, Jeremiah
Cook, James
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Early modern
Modern
20th century
Places
England
Great Britain
Tahiti
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Romania
Europe
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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