Transit of Venus
Subtitle: 1631 to the present
By: Nick Lomb
Edition: 1st North American ed.
Publisher: The Experiment Publishing; Distributed by Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781615190553
Subjects: Transit; Astronomy; Observations; History
Description: "Every so often, the planet Venus does something remarkable. Its orbit brings it to a point directly between the Sun and the Earth, where it appears to us as a black dot moving across the bright disc of the Sun. This transit of Venus is rare, occurring in pairs eight years apart and then not for more than a hundred years; it has fascinated astronomers for centuries."--Introduction.
Notes: "Transit of Venus was first published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of UNSW Press. The first North American edition is published in assosciation with the Powerhouse zmuseum, Sydney, Australia, and NewSouth."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Transit fast facts; title: Introduction; title: A spot of unusual magnitude : 1639; title: Frozen plains and tropical seas : 1761; title: Venus of the South Seas : 1769; title: Capturing the transit : 1874 and 1882; title: Space-age transit : 2004; title: Observing the 2012 transit; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.