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Captain Cook and the transit of Venus

Mates In Space by Justin

Oct 5, 202341:00Science & Medicine

I'M YOUR VENUS: In 1768, Lieutenant James Cook set sail to observe a twice-in-a-lifetime astronomical event – the transit of Venus. Secretly, he had also been ordered to look for the "great Southern Continent" ( that's u...

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