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History of the observations of the transits of
Venus
This CD-Rom contains the fac-simile of the texts written after
the voyages made during the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries
for the observation of the transits of Venus. The navigation may
be either by searching a given voyage from the general tables gathering
all the information, or by following the commented and guided tour,
providing in priority the most interesting of the most well-known
texts.
One will find also the predictions of the transits and the canons
of the transits of Mercury from 1500 to 2500ad and Venus calculated nowadays for the
period -3000 to 3000ad.
This CD-Rom has been made under the direction of Jean-Eudes
ARLOT, research director at CNRS, by Delphine
MOUSSET, documentalist at Paris Observatory
for the search and the gathering of the documents, by Michel TOULMONDE,
University of Evry, for the writing of the commentary pages
of the old texts, by Patrick ROCHER for the
calculations of the canons of the transits of Mercury and Venus
and by Gilles BESSOU from CeCOM, Paris Observatory
for the making of the files on the CD-Rom. Comments have been translated
to English by Audrey DELSANTI from Paris-Meudon
Observatory.
The documents come mainly from the library of Paris Observatory,
from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Gallica) and from
funds the list of which is available on the page "copyright
and rights of use". The scanning of the documents of Paris
Observatory has been made by the Arkhênum company.
The financial support of this work has been provided by Paris
Observatory, the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique),
the Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des
éphémérides and by the European Commission
through the project VT-2004 inside the program"Science and
society".
How to use this CD-rom ?
copyright and rights of
use
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