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Record #168437:

Preparing for the Transit of Venus: then and now / William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter.

Title: Preparing for the Transit of Venus: then and now / William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter.
Author(s): Carter, William E.
Carter, Merri Sue.
Date: 2004.
In: Eos : transactions, American Geophysical Union. (2004.), Vol. 85(21) (2004)
Abstract: Brief history of efforts to observe Transits of Venus since 1761, including description of Newcomb's photographic heliostat used on Iles Kerguelen.
Notes:

Eos : transactions, American Geophysical Union. Vol. 85(21) :209, 213 (2004).

Keywords: 5(091) -- History of science.
52 -- Astronomy.
521.84 -- Transits of planets: 1874 Transit of Venus.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1874-75 US Transit of Venus Expedition.
V -- History.
(*7) -- Antarctic regions.
(*78) -- Sub-Antarctic islands.
(*784.2) -- Kerguelen, Iles.
SPRI record no.: 168437

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