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The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain, Vol. 1
by Ratcliff, Jessica
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- ISBN-13: 9781851965410
- ISBN: 1851965416
- Publication Date: 2008
- Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, Limited
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In the second half of the 19th century, the British Government spent a vast amount of money measuring the distance between the Earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. Jessica Ratcliff presents a clear and compelling narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes.Ratcliff, Jessica is the author of 'The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain, Vol. 1', published 2008 under ISBN 9781851965410 and ISBN 1851965416.
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