{"id":391,"date":"2015-10-19T03:49:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/?page_id=391"},"modified":"2015-10-19T03:49:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:49:13","slug":"historical-transits-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-transits-of-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Transits of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"1882-transit-of-venus\">1882 Transit of Venus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_366\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/1882-transit-of-venus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-366\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/ToV_USNO_1882.jpg\" alt=\"1882 Transit of Venus from US Naval Observatory\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/ToV_USNO_1882.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/ToV_USNO_1882-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/ToV_USNO_1882-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1882 Transit of Venus from US Naval Observatory<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"1874-transit-of-venus\">1874 Transit of Venus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_392\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/1874-transit-of-venus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-392\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/russell_vt_1874.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of a book on the Transit of Venus by Henry Chamberlain Russell\" width=\"450\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/russell_vt_1874.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/russell_vt_1874-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of a book on the Transit of Venus by Henry Chamberlain Russell<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"1769-transit-of-venus\">1769 Transit of Venus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_377\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/1769-transit-of-venus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-377\" class=\"wp-image-377 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Cook_blackdrop_1769.jpg\" alt=\"The black drop effect and Venus's atmosphere sketched by Captain Cook and published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Cook_blackdrop_1769.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Cook_blackdrop_1769-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Cook_blackdrop_1769-421x300.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The black drop effect and Venus&#8217;s atmosphere sketched by Captain Cook\u00a0and published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"1761-transit-of-venus\">1761 Transit of Venus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_382\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/1761-transit-of-venus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-382\" class=\"size-full wp-image-382\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Bergman_blackdrop.jpg\" alt=\"Thobern Bergman's (1761-1762) rendition of the Black Drop effect  during the 1761 transit of Venus.  Reprinted with permission from the Royal Society.\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Bergman_blackdrop.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Bergman_blackdrop-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Bergman_blackdrop-456x300.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thobern Bergman&#8217;s (1761-1762) rendition of the Black Drop effect<br \/>during the 1761 transit of Venus.<br \/>Reprinted with permission from the Royal Society.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"1639-transit-of-venus\">1639 Transit of Venus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_393\" style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/1639-transit-of-venus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-393\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/1639pic.jpg\" alt=\"Stained glass window from the church at Much Hoole  showing Horrocks's original observations.\" width=\"357\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/1639pic.jpg 357w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/1639pic-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stained glass window from the church at Much Hoole<br \/>showing Horrocks&#8217;s original observations.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"historical-documents\">Historical Documents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1882 Transit of Venus 1874 Transit of Venus 1769 Transit of Venus 1761 Transit of Venus 1639 Transit of Venus Historical Documents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}