{"id":14,"date":"2012-08-07T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/transitofvenus\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2012-08-08T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:34:57","slug":"historical-documents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/transitofvenus\/historical-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The title page of Kepler’s “Astronomia Nova” (1609), in which he advanced his first two laws.
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The title page of Kepler’s “Harmonices Mundi” (1619), in which he advanced his third law.
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The title page of Kepler’s “Rudolphine Tables,” from which he predicted transits of Mercury and of Venus in 1631.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Copernicus’s famous sun-centered diagram from his “De Revolutionibus” (1543).
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Digges’s version, the first in English, of Copernicus’s sun-centered diagram, published in several editions starting in 1576.
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Kepler: from the Rudolphine Tables (1627)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cover of the US Naval Observatory book “Instructions for Observing the Transit of Venus” with the signature of Truman Henry Safford, Director of Williams College’s Hopkins Observatory from 1876-1902.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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