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| Introduction |
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6 | (141) |
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The Precedent: Transit of Venus Expeditions in 1761 and 1769 |
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9 | (12) |
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13 | (8) |
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Big Science in Britain c. 1815-70 |
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21 | (14) |
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The Magnetic Crusades: The Bigger Science Between the Two Tranists |
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22 | (3) |
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Admiralty Science and the Reform Movement |
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25 | (4) |
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Airy's Greenwich and its Place in the Histroriography |
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29 | (6) |
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Noble Science, Noble Nation: The Establishment of Transit Programmes in Britain and Abroad |
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35 | (22) |
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Edward Stone, the Black Drop Effect and the Transit of Mercury in 1868 |
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37 | (4) |
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The Transit Proposal in Parliament |
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41 | (4) |
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The International Picture: Transit Programmes Abroad |
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45 | (1) |
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Situating the Observation Stations |
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46 | (3) |
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Britain's Scientific Honour, the Press and the Airy-Proctor Debate |
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49 | (8) |
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Inside Greenwhich: The Preparations for 1874 |
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57 | (32) |
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Warren De La Rue and the Photographic Plan |
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60 | (6) |
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Precision Astronomical Photography inthe Wet-Plate Era |
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66 | (8) |
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Programme Design as a National Product |
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74 | (3) |
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The Telescopic Plan: Modelling the Transit of Venus |
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77 | (3) |
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Artificial Black Drop Experiments |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (2) |
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Model Training versus Personal Equation Measures |
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84 | (2) |
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86 | (3) |
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89 | (30) |
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Establishing the Observation Stations: The Case of Cairo |
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94 | (5) |
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Environment, Local Time and Latitude: Work Routines at the Stations |
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99 | (3) |
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102 | (2) |
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Lindsay and Gills' Chronometric Trials |
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104 | (1) |
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Browne's Experiment in Submarine Telegraphy |
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105 | (3) |
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The Day of the Transit: 8-9 December 1874 |
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108 | (3) |
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The Transit of Venus Observed in Cairo |
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111 | (3) |
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Worldwide Spectacle: The Day of the Transit in the Press |
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114 | (5) |
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119 | (28) |
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Airy's International Proposal for Reducing the Observations |
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121 | (3) |
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Calculating Parallax in 1874 versus 1769 |
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124 | (1) |
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The Plan to Measure the Photographs |
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125 | (3) |
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128 | (2) |
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130 | (3) |
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`Casting' Phases and `Doctoring' Results |
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133 | (5) |
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Deciding that Photography had Failed |
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138 | (2) |
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The Official Publication and the Retirement of the Astronomer Royal |
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140 | (3) |
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Outcomes and Results Beyond Greenwich |
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143 | (4) |
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147 | (6) |
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Measurement in Late Victorian Science |
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147 | (3) |
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National Science, Growth and Progress |
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150 | (3) |
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Epilogue: The Transit of 1882 |
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153 | (20) |
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Change of Leadership and Loss of Resources |
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155 | (3) |
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The Question of International Cooperation |
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158 | (1) |
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The New Instructions to Observers |
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159 | (3) |
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The Longitude Work and the Loss of Admiralty Patronage |
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162 | (2) |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (2) |
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The Transit Enterprise, International Cooperation and Precision Astronomical Photography |
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168 | (5) |
| Notes |
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173 | (24) |
| Works Cited |
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197 | (16) |
| Index |
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