Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 170
consequence is that whenanother eight years have elapsed, the planet passes alittle above the sun or a. little below the sun, and thusa third occurrence of the transit is avoided for more VENUS IN TRANSIT. 157 than a century. The next transit will take place at theopposite side of the path. We were… … Fig. 51. — Venus in Transit across the Sun. the disk. Venus looked like a small round black spot,stealing in on the bright surface of the sun and gradu-ally advancing along the short chord that formed itstrack. An immense deal of trouble was taken in 1882, aswell as in 1874, to observe this rare…
Astronomy
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