Lecture 3

History of Astronomy Whipple Museum is an excellent link for the 17th century.

Pierre Gassendi Biographical Details : Gassendi was the first to observe a transit of Mercury as predicted by Kepler.

Science Museum Florence for Galileo's instruments and his finger!

Tycho Brahe's book on his instruments (Thanks to Paul Below for finding this site)

Jeremiah Horrocks biographical details

Transits by David Sellers is an excellent link for the application of the transits of Venus to the problem of the solar parallax.

TRACE Homepage shows a transit of Mercury from the TRACE space probe.

Gascoigne biographical link

Halley's admonition to the Royal Society recommending the transit of Venus as the best way to obtain the solar parallax.

Hevelius biographical details

Historic Celestial Atlas including ones by Hevelius and Flamsteed.

Our next meeting will be April 11, 2002 at the Richie Observatory.

Please contact me with any questions.

BPAA Lecture Series 2002