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By Jessica Ratcliff

In the 19th century, the British govt spent cash measuring the space among the earth and the sunlight utilizing observations of the transit of Venus. This e-book offers a story of the 2 Victorian transit programmes. It attracts out their cultural value and explores the character of "big technology" in late-Victorian Britain.

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