...These transits have been utilized incelestial geometry in measuring the distance of the Sun... 
Camille Flammarion Frances A. Welby 「Astronomy for Amateurs」
...In 1665 Cassini observed transits of the four satellites, and also saw theirshadows on the planet, and worked out a lunar theory for Jupiter...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...Considering that the earth is overtaken by Venus once every nineteenmonths, it might seem that the transits of the planet should occur withcorresponding frequency...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...The transits may beall grouped together into pairs, the two transits of any single pairbeing separated by an interval of eight years...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...In an earlier chapter we dealt at length with eclipses, occultations,and transits, and endeavoured to make clear the distinction betweenthem...
Cecil G. Dolmage 「Astronomy of To-day」
...In point of fact,whilst the next three transits of Mercury areas remote as 1907, 1914 and 1924, there will beno transit of Venus at all during the 20th century;not another indeed until A...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
...Sidereal timewas determined by observing transits of stars over a meridianline actually laid out upon the ground, etc...
George C. Comstock 「A Text-Book of Astronomy」
...Among the works I had projected was that of rediscussing all theobservations made on the transits of Venus which had occurred in 1761and 1769, by the light of modern discovery...
Simon Newcomb 「Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science」
...Observations were made of transits of Mercury andVenus, and refracting and reflecting telescopes were invented...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...There is an interesting phenomenon in connection with transits which isknown as the "Black Drop...
Cecil G. Dolmage 「Astronomy of To-day」
...Special attention was directed to this pointduring the recent transits, but no satellite of Venus was to be found...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...What is seen during transits of Venus over thesun's disk leads to more certain, but yet very puzzling, conclusions...
Simon Newcomb 「Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science」
...Bythis means the sun can be studied from day to day, and its spots orthe transits of Mercury and Venus shown to any number of spectators...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
...Ramsden's universal theodolite, set up for the purpose of observing transits, excited its share of attention from the curious...
Matthew Flinders 「A Voyage to Terra Australis」
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