Astronomy: On the track of the transit

Owen Gingerich ()
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Owen Gingerich: Owen Gingerich is an astronomer and historian of science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nature, 2012, vol. 485, issue 7398, 305-306

Abstract: Owen Gingerich enjoys two histories of the expeditions that aimed to measure the passage of Venus across the face of the Sun.

Date: 2012
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