Download or read book The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain written by Jessica Ratcliff and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of "big science" in late-Victorian Britain.

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