Transits of Venus: A Popular Account of Past and Coming Transits from the First Observed by Horrocks A.D. 1639 to the Transit of A.D. 2012Longmans, Green and Company, 1874 - 236 síđur |
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accelerated egress appear applied arcs Astronomer Royal centre of Venus conjunction conjunction-line corresponding Crown 8vo Crozet Island darkened hemispheres Delisle's method Delislean poles determined diameter difference duration earth Edition Enderby Land favourable Gassendi Greenwich Halley Halley's method Halleyan pole Halleyan stations hemispheres at ingress high at ingress Horrocks illustrated internal contact Kerguelen Kerguelen Island Kerguelen's Land latitude limb longitude Mercury miles minutes nearly node northern Halleyan observing the transit occupied orbit parallel passage passing photographic planet Plate XII position Possession Island R. A. PROCTOR region retarded egress rotation seconds seen separate sunlit Sir G solar parallax Stations for observing SUN-VIEW sun's centre sun's disc sun's distance sun's parallax sunlit and darkened supposed telescope tion Tobolsk TRANSIT BEGINS transit of 1761 transit of 1874 transit of Mercury transit of Venus Venus's centre visible vols whole transit Woodcuts وو
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