The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 164
tancesfrom a fixed star. Occasionally, at the time of inferior con-junction, Venus passes directly across the suns disk. Thelast of these transits of Venus occurred in 1S74, and the nextwill occur in 18S2. It will then be over a hundred years beforeanother will occur. Suppose two observers, A and B… … Fig. I Venus, which would give the distance and direction of Venusfrom the centre of the sun, as seen from each station, wouldenable us to calculate the angular distance between the twochords described across the sun. This, of course, would givethe displacement of Venus on the suns disk. This…
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