The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain
ISBN: 9780822981855
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pittsburgh Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: General Science ; History of Science & Technology;

In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of "big science" in late-Victorian Britain.

Jessica Ratcliff is assistant professor of science and technological studies at Cornell University.

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