The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain

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The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain is written by Jessica Ratcliff and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822981858 (ISBN 10) and 9780822981855 (ISBN 13).

In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of "big science" in late-Victorian Britain.