id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_o6uptvcnjrctvhzvc4rfexyaei R. Price A Letter from Richard Price, D. D. F. R. S. to Benjamin Franklin, L L. D. F. R. S. on the Effect of the Aberration of Light on the Time of a Transit of Venus Over the Sun 1770 5 .pdf application/pdf 1467 244 94 on the effect of the aberration of light on the time of a transit of Venus over the Sun as from that of Venus, T h e aberration of the Sun, it tranfit 3//*7* Venus, therefore, and the Sun, at the give the apparent places of the Sun, or its longitude phafes of a tranfit of Venus will precede the apparent it will happen, that in calculating a tranfit of Venus from tables which give the Sun's apparent places, a Sun's true places. For, let S be the Sun, T the Earth, V Venus. obferved conjunction $ for the Sun being then really apparent place of the Sun, aberration of Venus at the time o f a tranfit, removing Venus from the Sun's center at the calculated moment th at in calculating, the Sun's apparent, and not his true the aberration of the Sun, and the proportion of Venus's ./cache/work_o6uptvcnjrctvhzvc4rfexyaei.pdf ./txt/work_o6uptvcnjrctvhzvc4rfexyaei.txt