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Replicating the discovery of Venus’s atmosphere

Vladimir Shiltsev, Igor Nesterenko, and Randall Rosenfeld

February 2013, page 64

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.1894

The 2012 transit of Venus gave us a chance to reproduce Mikhail Lomonosov’s 1761 observation and demonstrate the excellent quality of 18th-century telescopes.

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0031-9228 (print)

1945-0699 (online)

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American Institute of Physics

PACS

01.60.+q

Biographies, tributes, personal notes, and obituaries
01.65.+g

History of science
95.10.Gi

Eclipses, transits, and occultations
96.12.Jt

Atmospheres

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