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Lecture 26: How Far the Sun? From an introductory astronomy course, describes expeditions which observed the 18th century transits. http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit4/venussun.html Ohio-state.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   No. 1303: Transit of Venus Transcript of a radio show describing 18th century expeditions. Link to the audio. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1303.htm Uh.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Transits of Venus Transits in the past and on June 8, 2004. http://www.venus-transit.de/index.html Venus-transit.de  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Christian Science Monitor Blog - Captain Cook, the transit of Venus, and a little trip to Tahiti Short explanation of Cook's mission, what he was trying to measure, and links to related web content. http://weblogs.csmonitor.com/scitechblog/2004/05/index.html#a0001403017 Csmonitor.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The 1882 Transit of Venus: Observations from Wellington, South Africa Describes the development of a higher education facility for women in South Africa and the events that led to the American scientific expedition to be able to view the astronomical phenomena. Page includes background of key participants, as well as phot http://www.saao.ac.za/~wpk/tov1882/tovwell.html Saao.ac.za  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The American Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1882 Abstract of an oral presentation at the 1996 AAS meeting. http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html Aas.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The Transit of Venus & The Quest For The Solar Parallax Excerpt of a book by David Sellers (Leeds, England). Covers the history of trying to find the Earth-Sun distance and how planetary transits played a part in that. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/magavelda/ds/venus/ven_ch1A.htm Ntlworld.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check