James Cook and the transit of Venus
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 08:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Every ~120 years a dark spot glides across the Sun. Small, inky-black, almost perfectly circular, it's no ordinary sunspot. Not everyone can see it, but some who do get the strangest feeling, of standing, toes curled in the damp sand, on the beach of a South Pacific isle....