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The Transit of Venus
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The Transit of Venus

  • E. W. PRINGLE1 

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AMONG the brief telegraphic accounts given in NATURE, vol xi. p. 122, of the work done by the several Transit expeditions, is one from Janssen, in which it is stated that Venus was seen over the sun's corona before contact (which contact, external or internal, is unfortunately not mentioned).

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PRINGLE, E. The Transit of Venus. Nature 11, 306 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011306b0

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