Open AccessXLVII. Second paper concerning the parallax of the Sun determined from the observations of the late transit of Venus, in which this subject is treated of more at length, and the quantity of the parallax more fully ascertained.
Author(s) -
James F. Short
Publication year - 1763
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society of london
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9223
pISSN - 0261-0523
DOI - 10.1098/rstl.1763.0048
Subject(s) - venus , memoir , parallax , transit (satellite) , subject (documents) , art , astrobiology , geology , astronomy , geodesy , art history , physics , computer science , engineering , public transport , transport engineering , library science
In the last volume of the Memoirs of the Royal Academy at Paris for the year 1761, there is a Memoir by M. Pingré, who went to the island of Rodrigues, and observed the transit of Venus there; in this memoir M. Pingré endeavours to determine the parallax of the Sun, by the observation of the late transit of Venus, to be = 10".
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