Sentence examples for observed a transit from inspiring English sources

Ibn Bajjah could not have observed a transit of Venus, because none occurred in his lifetime.

Edmund Halley – he of comet fame – visited the island in 1677 to catalogue the southern stars and observe a transit of Mercury.

In 1769 he was invited to lead an expedition to California to observe a transit of Venus but the offer was rescinded because of Spanish bias against the Jesuits.

Recommended by the Royal Society of London to lead an expedition to the South Pacific to observe a transit of Venus (1769), Dalrymple hoped to find the Great South Land in the course of his voyage.

Observing a transit close up, in front of a star as well-understood as the sun, offers oodles of useful data to help make sense of observations farther afield.Eventually, though, astronomers want to do better still.

Although Halley wasn't the first to observe a Transit of Venus - when the planet passes in front of the sun - his paper threw down a gauntlet to the then nascent scientific community.

Captain Cook's exploration of the east coast of Australia came after he had sailed to Tahiti in 1768 to observe a transit of Venus.

On November 8, Henry's team observed a partial transit, seeing only the ingress.

The doctor, Adam W. Levinson, an expert in robotics and minimally invasive surgery, was observed by a transit police officer at 5 15 p.m. holding a newspaper under the woman's skirt with a pen containing a tiny video camera clipped onto the newspaper, according to a criminal complaint.

But scientists had never before observed an exoplanet eclipse, called a "transit," in X-ray light.

The following century, in 1761 Neville Maskelyne, later to become Astronomer Royal, came to observe a much rarer transit of Venus.