Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century

Cottam, Stella; Orchiston, Wayne

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08341-4

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“…Given that both the eclipses and the transits are, in effect, rare and unlikely to be optimally observable from your home observatory, one might have expected both to be opportunities for multinational expeditions. This is not, in general, what happened for either sort of event (Sheehan & Westfall 2004;Cottam & Orchiston 2015).…”

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“…Similar things can be said about the 19th century ones. Many, going many places, but international groups rare enough that it was newsworthy when Norman Lockyer accepted an invitation from Benjamin Peirce to accompany the American expedition to Sicily in 1870 (Cottam & Orchiston 2015).…”

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