Image: Halley 1716 proposal of determining the parallax of the sun
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Description: Diagram from Edmund Halley 1678 paper to the Royal Society ("Dr. Halley's Dissertation of the Method of Determining the Parallax of the Sun by the Transit of Venus, June 6, 1761") showing how the Venus Transit could be used to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
Title: Halley 1716 proposal of determining the parallax of the sun
Credit: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/05/29/science/space/20120529-VENUS.html
Author: Edmund Halley
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