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,2012—Hail to Thee, Venus—and Fond Farewell!,t of 1639. Those of our generation are fortunate to have had one opportunity in 2004, and a second in 2012. Though countless millions saw Venus track across the Sun at one or other transit, anyone living who did not avail him or herself of the opportunity will now have to wait until 2117 for the nex

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Future Transits,ng for the next planetary transit. As a matter of fact, no less than 14 transits of Mercury will occur between 2012 and 2117. We also note that the first planetary transit ever observed was that of Mercury in 1631, viewed by only three persons, one of whom was Pierre Gassendi, the author of the quot

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The June Flowers of 2004, of the Victorian era, whose idea of technological feats included the laying down of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable and the recent invention of the telephone. In 1874 and 1882, accounts of transit observations could be transmitted around the globe in a matter of days, while by 2004 communication

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Book 2015ine changes in the Earth‘s brightness as a way of monitoring possible effects in cloud coverage which may be related to global warming. Shadows were used by the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes to work out the first estimate of the circumference of the Earth, by Galileo to measure the heights of the

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Onvrijwillige hulpverlening weer in beeld,e will be using celestial directions whenever possible; if north is up, then east is to the left. We will point out whenever we use the “IAU” planetary directional system, which instead has east to the right when north is up.) Rising from the horizon is the shadow itself, a blue-grey color.