559 - The Transit of Venus part 2: Back in the Habit

Following on from last week's episode, we hear of more adventures undertaken by scientists in the 1760's in the effort to track the transit of Venus! Intrepid astronomers this week include Frenchmen Alexandre-Gui Pingré and Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche and Englishmen Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason (who we mistakenly call Wilson through a lot of the episode sorry)!

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit4/venussun.html

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf

https://theconversation.com/transit-of-venus-a-tale-of-two-expeditions-7246

https://www.iflscience.com/in-1761-and-1769-intrepid-voyagers-had-a-once-in-a-century-chance-to-measure-the-solar-system-83712

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/why-should-you-care-about-transit-venus

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/transits-of-venus-in-history-1761/

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/13/books/the-war-to-begin-all-wars.html#:~:text=Winston%20S.,Africa%2C%20India%20and%20the%20Philippines.

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