The journey of the German expedition to observe the transit of Venus on December 9, 1874 at the Kerguelen Islands and its sojourn there

• Main Author: Davoust, Emmanuel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2020
• Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics physics.hist-ph; FOS Physical sciences; Hubble; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Venus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2011.03402; https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03402

Astronomers are the surveyors of the sky. They have always dedicated much time and resources to determining the scale of distances in the universe. Today, the Hubble constant; yesterday, the solar parallar. The following account, attributed to Ladislas Weinek, a modest actor of this scientific epic,...