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The Transit of Venus & The Quest For The Solar Parallax

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Link URL: http://www.dsellers.demon.co.uk/venus/ven_ch1A.htm
Link Details: Excerpt of a book by David Sellers (Leeds, England). Covers the history of trying to find the Earth-Sun distance and how planetary transits played a part in that.
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