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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- MEMOIR
- TREATISE
- Chapter I The occasion, excellence, and utility of the Observation
- Chapter II Account of the Observation
- Chapter III What others observed, or might have observed, of this Conjunction
- Chapter IV It is proved that the spot observed in the Sun's disc was really Venus
- Chapter V The Examination of the apparent Longitude and Latitude of Venus from the Sun
- Chapter VI The alteration of the apparent into the true situation of Venus
- Chapter VII An Inquiry into the Time and Place of the true Conjunction of Venus and the Sun
- Chapter VIII The Demonstration of the Node of Venus
- Chapter IX The beginning, middle, and end of the Transit are shewn
- Chapter X An Examination of the Calculations of Astronomers respecting the foregoing
- Chapter XI The Calculation of Copernicus
- Chapter XII The Calculation of Lansberg
- Chapter XIII The Calculation of Longomontanus
- Chapter XIV The Calculation of Kepler
- Chapter XV Correction of the Motions according to Rudolphi
- Chapter XVI On the Diameter of Venus
- Chapter XVII On the Diameters of the rest of the Planets, of the Proportion of the Celestial Spheres, and of the Parallax of the Sun
- Plate section
Chapter VII - An Inquiry into the Time and Place of the true Conjunction of Venus and the Sun
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- MEMOIR
- TREATISE
- Chapter I The occasion, excellence, and utility of the Observation
- Chapter II Account of the Observation
- Chapter III What others observed, or might have observed, of this Conjunction
- Chapter IV It is proved that the spot observed in the Sun's disc was really Venus
- Chapter V The Examination of the apparent Longitude and Latitude of Venus from the Sun
- Chapter VI The alteration of the apparent into the true situation of Venus
- Chapter VII An Inquiry into the Time and Place of the true Conjunction of Venus and the Sun
- Chapter VIII The Demonstration of the Node of Venus
- Chapter IX The beginning, middle, and end of the Transit are shewn
- Chapter X An Examination of the Calculations of Astronomers respecting the foregoing
- Chapter XI The Calculation of Copernicus
- Chapter XII The Calculation of Lansberg
- Chapter XIII The Calculation of Longomontanus
- Chapter XIV The Calculation of Kepler
- Chapter XV Correction of the Motions according to Rudolphi
- Chapter XVI On the Diameter of Venus
- Chapter XVII On the Diameters of the rest of the Planets, of the Proportion of the Celestial Spheres, and of the Parallax of the Sun
- Plate section
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- Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Jeremiah HorroxTo Which is Appended a Translation of his Celebrated Discourse Upon the Transit of Venus Across the Sun, pp. 153 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1859