The Transit of Venus, Part 1
Science Talk
English - May 30, 2012 19:55 - 28 minutes - ★★★★ - 579 ratingsScience Technology science technology scientific american steve mirsky science news nanotech business chemistry biology cloning Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With a transit of Venus coming up on June 5th or 6th in different parts of the world, Mark Anderson, author of the book The Day The World Discovered the Sun, talks about the great efforts to track the transits of Venus in the 1760s and the science they would produce