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Christian Science Monitor Blog - Captain Cook, the transit of Venus, and a little trip to Tahiti - http://weblogs.csmonitor.com/scitechblog/2004/05/index.html#a0001403017
Short explanation of Cook's mission, what he was trying to measure, and links to related web content.

Lecture 26: How Far the Sun? - http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit4/venussun.html
From an introductory astronomy course, describes expeditions which observed the 18th century transits.

No. 1303: Transit of Venus - http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1303.htm
Transcript of a radio show describing 18th century expeditions. Link to the audio.

The 1882 Transit of Venus: Observations from Wellington, South Africa - http://www.saao.ac.za/~wpk/tov1882/tovwell.html
Describes the development of a higher education facility for women in South Africa and the events that led to the American scientific expedition to be able to view the astronomical phenomena. Page includes background of key participants, as well as photos of the original telescope and observatory.

The American Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1882 - http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html
Abstract of an oral presentation at the 1996 AAS meeting.

The Transit of Venus & The Quest For The Solar Parallax - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/magavelda/ds/venus/ven_ch1A.htm
Excerpt of a book by David Sellers (Leeds, England). Covers the history of trying to find the Earth-Sun distance and how planetary transits played a part in that.

Transits of Venus - http://www.venus-transit.de/index.html
Transits in the past and on June 8, 2004.

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