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A transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth (or any other superior planet), becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a transit, Venus is visible as a small black circle moving across the face of the Sun. Transits of Venus reoccur periodically.
The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent William Crabtree. [1] The pair made their observations independently on 4 December that year (24 November under the Julian calendar then used in England); Horrocks from Carr House, then ...
Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641), sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox (the Latinised version that he used on the Emmanuel College register and in his Latin manuscripts), [2] was an English astronomer. [3] He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit; and he was the only person to ...
French. Known for. transits of Venus. Scientific career. Fields. astronomy. Institutions. Royal Academy of Sciences. Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʃap dotʁɔʃ]; 23 March 1722 – 1 August 1769) was a French astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769.
This Venus-Mars trine is stirring up deep emotional waters for you, as Cancer governs your eighth house of intimacy and transformation while Scorpio occupies your secretive 12th house of privacy ...
English. Known for. Transit of Venus. Scientific career. Fields. Astronomy. Mathematics. William Crabtree (1610–1644) was an English astronomer, mathematician, and merchant from Broughton, then in the Hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. He was one of only two people to observe and record the first predicted transit of Venus in 1639.
The transit of Venus occurred on June 3, 1769. Rittenhouse's great excitement at observing the infrequently occurring transit of Venus (for which he had prepared for a year) resulted in his fainting during the observation. In addition to the work involved in the preparations, he had also been ill the week before the transit.
Fort Venus located on the north coast of Tahiti. On 3 June 1769, navigator Captain James Cook, naturalist Joseph Banks, astronomer Charles Green and naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. [1] During a transit, Venus appears as a small black disc travelling ...