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The Transit of Venus & The Quest For The Solar Parallax
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/magavelda/ds/venus/ven_ch1A.htmExcerpt 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.
Submitted in section: Astronomy: History: Eclipses, Occultations and Transits: The Transit of Venus & The Quest For The Solar Parallax