From the Earth to the Sun: the quest for the Astronomical Unit by means of the 1761 and 1769 Venus transits.
In the mid-eighteenth century, the primary and most urgent astronomical problem was to determine the exact value of the Earth-Sun distance (the so-called Astronomical Unit, A.U.). With that value in hand, thanks to Kepler’s third law, all the planet distances would have been easily derived and, as a...
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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
2021
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Online Access: | http://amslaurea.unibo.it/23504/ |