In message <CABbxVHs=nhLies1VRYO5Qhk2uF48AAseHZBTV69-CorER=z...@mail.gmail.com> , Chris Albertson writes:
>does anyone have a reference to the math and process used to measure >distance from earth to sun using transit of venus? I read about it many years ago in a book about Einstein (as lead-up to the mercury stuff). The measurements mentioned was the time it took Venus to pass the Suns limb, and the time it took the center of Venus to pass across the Sun. No math given. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.