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History and Philosophy: Transit of Venus

• History of Transits of Venus [Transitofvenus.org]
• Chasing Venus [Smithsonian Institute]
• Wikipedia (good tables and resources)
• What is the Transit of Venus? [Library of Congress]
• Historical Transits of Venus [Williams College]
• Jeremiah Horrocks, Edmund Halley, and the Transit of Venus, John Butler, 2007. [Armagh Observatory]
• Transit of Venus June 8, 2004 (links to basic information and history in English and German) [Venustransit.de]
• The Transits of Venus of 1631 and 1639, R. H. van Gent, 2004/04. [University of Utrecht]
• The Rarest Eclipse: Transit of Venus [Explorartorium]
• The Man Who Knew Venus Would Transit the Sun [excerpt], Ken Shulman, 2012/06. [Scientific American]
• 1769 June 3^rd-4^th Transit of Venus [HM Nautical Almanac Office]
• James Cook and the Transit of Venus [NASA]
• 1769 Transit of Venus Observed from Tahiti (solid bibliography) [Wikipedia]
• Transit of Venus: 1769 (wonderful graphics) [Melbourne Observatory]
• Flying Bridges: The Day the World Discovered the Sun [Excerpt], Mark Anderson, 2012/06. [Scientific American]
• Transits of Venus in History: 1631-1716, Robert Næye, 2012. [Sky and Telescope]
• Reanimating the 1882 Transit of Venus, Anthony Misch, 2012. [Sky and Telescope]
• John Philip Sousa's [Transit of Venus] March [NASA]
  • Link to the music [Library of Congress]
• Transit of Venus on the dome of the Paris Observatory, painting by Edmond-Louis Dupain, 1886. [Transit of Venus]

• Transits of Venus and the Astronomical Unit: four centuries of increasing precision by Costantino Sigismondi [2012/07]

• A Letter to William Watson, M.D. by Rev. Nevil Maskelyne [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 52, 26 (1761)] concerning the Transit of Venus expedition in progress.
• An Account of the Observations Made on the Transit of Venus, June 6, 1761, in the Island of St. Helena by Rev. Nevil Maskelyne [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 52, 196 (1761)]
• Observations of the Transit of Venus Over the Sun, and the Eclipse of the Sun by Rev. Nevil Maskelyne [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 58, 355 (1768/1769)]

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