The Transits of Venus; a Study of Eighteenth-Century Science [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 13 (3):536-536 (1960)
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In this careful study, Woolf traces the international effort to make accurate observations of the transits of Venus across the face of the sun in 1761 and 1769. Precise measurement of these infrequent transits permitted the calculation of the distance from the earth to the sun, and enabled the eighteenth century to give fixed scalar dimensions to the Newtonian account of the solar system.--L. S. F.

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