The journey of the German expedition to observe the transit of Venus on December 9, 1874 at the Kerguelen Islands and its sojourn there

2020/11/06 by E. Davoust, Davoust, Emmanuel
Environmental Science · #FOS: Physical sciences #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Polar Research and Ecology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2011.03402

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Abstract

Astronomers are the surveyors of the sky. They have always dedicated much time and resources to determining the scale of distances in the universe. Today, the Hubble constant; yesterday, the solar parallar. The following account, attributed to Ladislas Weinek, a modest actor of this scientific epic, describes one of its numerous chapters.

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