[DOC] [TLE] 1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti - Wikipedia [PAR] On June 3, 1769, British navigator Captain James Cook, British naturalist Joseph 
Banks, British ... This unusual astronomical phenomenon takes place in a pattern 
that repeats ... Places he recommended for observing the phenomenon included 
the ... to record the transit in four phases of Venus' journey across of the sun. [DOC] [TLE] First voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia [PAR] The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society 
expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 
1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. 
The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across 
the Sun ... Departing from Plymouth-Dock (Devonport) in August 1768, the 
expedition... [DOC] [TLE] James Cook and the Transit of Venus | Science Mission Directorate [PAR] Jun 2, 2012 ... What's the best reason to observe the 2012 Transit of Venus? ... Every ~120 
years a dark spot glides across the Sun. ... By the time Cook reached Tahiti in 
1769, he'd been sailing west for 8 ... a team of astronomers led by Glenn 
Schneider of the University of Arizona studied a .... Overview  What We Study. [DOC] [TLE] James Cook: First Voyage [PAR] Accomplishments: Viewed the 1769 transit of Venus, discovered the Society 
Islands, ... of the 1761 transit of Venus across the face of the Sun had been a 
failure. ... Astronomers, hopeful in using the data to calculate the distance from 
Earth to the ... of the expedition, and he received the Society's affirmation in May 
1768 to be... [DOC] [TLE] Lecture 26: How Far to the Sun? [PAR] May 9, 2011 ... He was sent to observe a Mercury transit from the island of St. Helena ... This 
experience led him to realize that that a transit of Venus, because Venus was 
closer to ... A transit of Venus across the Sun takes about 7 hours, but you need to 
... of European astronomers, and ambitious international expeditions... [DOC] [TLE] How Captain Cook Changed the World - Live Science [PAR] Jul 6, 2008 ... He was a latecomer to the Age of Exploration, but James Cook still managed to 
put his ... Many of his expeditions marked the first time that native inhabitants of 
those ... In 1768, Cook was made captain of the Endeavour, leading an ... to 
observe the transit of Venus across the sun, in the sky above Tahiti,... [DOC] [TLE] (Not So) Brief History of the Transits of Venus - people - Boston ... [PAR] Jun 8, 2004 ... across the face of the Sun two years hence, in 1631 ... was wrong: Venus would 
transit across the Sun ... he issued a call-to-arms to astronomers .... Norway to 
lead an expedition to the island ..... himself by studying Indian astronomy .... 10, 
1768, Wales writes about the intolerably .... the longitude of Tahiti. [DOC] [TLE] Transits of Venus Through History | Venus Transit of Sun - Space.com [PAR] May 29, 2012 ... ... human history. See historical images from NASA of those astronomical events. 
... Transit of Venus Across the Sun Through History (Gallery). [DOC] [TLE] James Cook - Student Resources in Context - Gale [PAR] Captain Cook was an English explorer who led three expeditions to the ... that a 
ship be sent to the Pacific to study the transit of Venus across the sun. ... The 
Endeavour sailed from Plymouth, England, on August 26, 1768. ... Instead, since 
he needed to reach Tahiti to make his astronomical observations, he turned north
. [DOC] [TLE] James Cook facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] 26, 1768, in the Endeavour he left Plymouth, accompanied by an astronomer, two 
... On June 3 the transit of Venus was observed, and on July 13 he left the place. 
... visited Tahiti and Tonga, and discovered New Caledonia and the islands of ... 
across the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, to New Zealand (which he reached in... [DOC]

Question: In 1768 he led an expedition to Tahiti, where astronomers studied the transit of Venus across the sun
Answer: James Cook