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THE TRANSIT OF VENUS ENTERPRISE IN
VICTORIAN BRITAIN
SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Series Editor: Bernard Lightman
TITLES IN THIS SERIES
Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences:
Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858
James Elwick
Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-
Century History of Science
Rebekah Higgitt
FORTHCOMING TITLES
Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Sir Henry Head
L. S. Jacyna
Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early
Nineteenth-Century Audiences
Victoria Carroll
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THE TRANSIT OF VENUS ENTERPRISE IN
VICTORIAN BRITAIN
BY
Jessica Ratcli
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2008
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Ratcli , Jessica
e transit of Venus enterprise in Victorian Britain. – (Science and culture in
nineteenth-century Britain)
1. Science – Great Britain – History – 19th century 2. Venus (Planet) – Transit
– 1874 3. Venus (Planet) – Transit – 1882
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523.9’2’09034
ISBN-13: 9781851965410
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