A Concise Introduction to Astrophysics
– The measurement of the distance to Venus 1761 and 1769 during its transits of the Sun with the help of the first global measurement campaign and to the nearest stars 1838 by Bessel using trigonometric parallaxes established the first rungs in the “cosmic distance ladder.”
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