Transit

Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles: and made easy to those who have not studied mathematics. To which are added, A plain method of finding the distances of all the planets from the sun, by the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, in the year 1761. An account of Mr. Horrox's observation of the transit of Venus in 1639.

By James Ferguson.

Golden Field Guides

Andrea Wulf

Venus in Transit: June 8, 2004

Eli Maor

The transits of Venus

Harry Woolf.

The Transits of Venus

William Sheehan, John Westfall

Ephemerides astronomicae anni 1791, ad meridianum Vindobonensem jussu Augustissimi

a Maximiliano Hell ... et Francisco de Paula Triesnecker ... calculate ; cum appendice continente (I) Observationes astronomicas latitudinum, & longitudinum locorum borealium Daniae, Sueciae, Norwegiae, & Finnmarchiae Lapponicae per iter Arcticum anno 1768, 1769, & 1770 factas a Maximiliano Hell, (II) De figura telluris, a Francisco de Paula Triesnecker, (III) Observationes barometricas, & thermometricas anni 1789 factas Viennae in observatorie Regio Universitatis

On Hell's alleged falsification of his observations of the transit of Venus in 1769

By Simon Newcomb ...

Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea?

Gloria D. Miklowitz

Transits of Venus: new views of the solar system and galaxy : proceedings of the 196th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union held in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom : 7-11 June 2004

edited by D.W. Kurtz.

Report on the preparations for, and observations of the transit of Venus: as seen at Roorkee and Lahore, on December 8, 1874.

By Colonel J.F. Tennant ...