Please
Join Us for for the Chasing Venus Lecture Series
12 Noon in the Leonard Carmichael Auditorium
National Museum of American History, Behring Center
All lectures are FREE and open to the public
Lecture
Series funding provided by NASA Office of Space Science
Thursday,
April 8, 2004
“The First Observation of a Transit of Venus: Jeremiah
Horrocks and the New Astronomy”
Wilbur Applebaum, Professor Emeritus, Humanities Dept., Illinois
Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
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to view the lecture.
Thursday,
April 22, 2004
“Endeavour's Wake: Captain Cook and the Transit of Venus”
Richard Fisher, Director, Sun-Earth Connection Division, NASA
Office of Space Science, Washington, DC
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to view the lecture.
Thursday,
May 6, 2004
“Transits of Venus and the American Expeditions of 1874
and 1882”
Steven J. Dick, NASA Chief Historian, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, Washington, DC
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Thursday,
May 20, 2004
“Transits of Mercury and Venus and the Solution of the
Black-Drop Mystery”
Jay M. Pasachoff, Director of Hopkins Observatory and Field Memorial
Professor of Astronomy, Williams
College, Williamstown, MA
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Thursday,
June 3, 2004
“Public Reaction to the Transit of Venus, 1882”
David DeVorkin, Curator of History of Astronomy, National Air
and Space Museum, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC
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