Episode 2: The Transit of Venus or LG and the No Good, Very Bad Decade
This Actually Happened with Chad McKenzie
English - September 29, 2018 15:09 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsHistory Education storytelling Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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They didn't have Xbox back in the 1700's so a bunch of guys set out to figure out the distance from the Earth to the Sun by sailing off to various points on the globe and watching the Transit of Venus.
Most of them were very successful. This is not their story.