Captain Cook's First Voyage
You're Dead to Me
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A Very Small Ship and It's Going to Tahiti
The crew of the h m s dolphin are going to switch over into the endeavor now, including actually their goat. They need to observe the transit of venus, which is when venus passes between the sun and the earth. In observing the time it took venus to pass across the sun's disk, natural philosophers can estimate the size of the solar system. This in turn has benefits for navigation, for finding longitude and for a whole bunch of things.
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