Download or read book The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain written by Jessica Ratcliff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of 'big science' in late-Victorian Britain.