Chasing Venus: Observing the Transits of Venus 1631-2004
Introduction
What is a Transit of Venus?
Discovering the Transits: The 1631 and 1639 Transits
Measuring the Universe: The 1761 and 1769 Transits
New Possibilities: The 1874 and 1882 Transits
The Transits of 2004 and 2012
Credits and Financial Support
Education and Events
Resources and Links

Education and Events

Education

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Events

Please Join Us for for the Chasing Venus Lecture Series
12 Noon in the Leonard Carmichael Auditorium
National Museum of American History, Behring Center
All lectures are FREE and open to the public

Lecture Series funding provided by NASA Office of Space Science

Thursday, April 8, 2004
“The First Observation of a Transit of Venus: Jeremiah Horrocks and the New Astronomy”
Wilbur Applebaum, Professor Emeritus, Humanities Dept., Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
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Thursday, April 22, 2004
“Endeavour's Wake: Captain Cook and the Transit of Venus”
Richard Fisher, Director, Sun-Earth Connection Division, NASA Office of Space Science, Washington, DC
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Thursday, May 6, 2004
“Transits of Venus and the American Expeditions of 1874 and 1882”
Steven J. Dick, NASA Chief Historian, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC
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Thursday, May 20, 2004
“Transits of Mercury and Venus and the Solution of the Black-Drop Mystery”
Jay M. Pasachoff, Director of Hopkins Observatory and Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
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Thursday, June 3, 2004
“Public Reaction to the Transit of Venus, 1882”
David DeVorkin, Curator of History of Astronomy, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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