The 1769 transit of Venus
Author | : Doyce Blackman Nunis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Doyce Blackman Nunis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrea Wulf |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0307958612 |
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.
Author | : Harry Woolf |
Publisher | : Ayer Company Pub |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780405139598 |
Author | : Source Wikipedia |
Publisher | : Booksllc.Net |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
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 | : Rowan Metcalfe |
Publisher | : Huia Publishers |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781869690830 |
The story of the Bounty mutiny is well known. Fletcher Christian's mutineers set Captain William Bligh and others adrift in a ship's boat. Bligh sailed some 5000 kilometres to safety; the mutineers returned to Tahiti before making their way to isolated and uninhabited Pitcairn Island. But what of the Tahitian women who joined the Bounty at Tahiti? Their powerful and compelling story is told in Transit of Venus. Mauatua and her friends and relatives speak directly to us in beautiful and startlingly perceptive ways as they move away from their homeland and pass into the feverish intensity of drunkenness, betrayal and murder that mark the early years on Pitcairn. In so doing they assert their place in a story that has fascinated readers for generations.
Author | : R MCL Wilson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2023-07-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004672613 |
Author | : Shirley Hazzard |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1990-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140107479 |
"The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century." - The Paris Review Finalist for the National Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Hazzard's novel is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life.
Author | : Glyndwr Williams |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781843831006 |
Essays reassess Cook's standing as a leading figure in eighteenth-century history, exploration and the advancement of science.
Author | : Albert Edgar Lownes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Venus (Planet) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Sheehan |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2010-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1615925473 |
In this unique and fascinating history of science, acclaimed popular science writer Sheehan and award-winning geographer Westfall take readers back through the centuries to chronicle the intrepid explorations of scientists and adventurers who studied the transits of Venus in the quest for scientific understanding. Maps & tables.