tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post4600787549450200747..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: The Transit of Venus and the Birth of AmericaBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-4031845358559236622012-06-05T16:39:31.269-06:002012-06-05T16:39:31.269-06:00The "democratic" spin is nice, and the a...The "democratic" spin is nice, and the allusion to the end of "the divine right of kings." <br /><br />However, one of the more important observations was made in Tahiti by the legendary Capt. James Cook of the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Ship [HMS] Endeavour.<br /><br />http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ccne/themes/venus.htm<br /><br />Nice story about Philadelphia, though.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-31822427056244802662012-06-05T08:53:32.407-06:002012-06-05T08:53:32.407-06:00Thomas Paine included this footnote in The Age of ...Thomas Paine included this footnote in The Age of Reason, discussing the plan of the solar system: "It should be asked, how can man know these things? I have one plain answer to give, which is, that man knows how to calculate an eclipse, and also how to calculate to a minute of time when the planet Venus in making her revolutions around the sun will come in a straight line between our earth and the sun, and will appear to us about the size of a large pea passing across the face of the sun. This happens but twice in about a hundred years, at the distance of about eight years fro each other, and has happened twice in our time, both of which were foreknown by calculation. It can also be known when they will happen again for a thousand years to come, or to any other portion of time. As, therefore, man could not be able to do these things if he did not understand the solar system, and the manner in which the revolutions of the several planets or worlds are performed, the fact of calculating an eclipse, or a transit of Venus, is a proof in point that the knowledge exists; and as to a few thousand, or even a few million miles, more or less, it makes scarcely any sensible difference in such immense distances."Gary Kowalskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00832434470111324769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-2262412761310112752012-06-05T08:24:01.838-06:002012-06-05T08:24:01.838-06:00.
Interesting...
Did any of the Founding Fathers ....<br />Interesting...<br /><br />Did any of the Founding Fathers have any thing to say about this phenomenon?<br />.<br />.Phil Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06756814849309388483noreply@blogger.com