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Showing posts with label history of astronomy. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882 narrated by a 19th century astronomer

The following is an excerpt from pages 142-162 of the book "The Story of the Heavens" by Sir Robert Stawell Ball, published in 1886.

"Fig. 42. Venus on the Sun at the Transit of 1874." (Original caption from pag. 147 of The Story of the Heavens, 2nd Edition, by R. S. Ball, 1886.)