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i am sooooo lost in what edmund halley did.
so far i understand that he used parallax and the venus transit to solve for the distance between Earth and sun but how did he exactly do it?
http://www.exploratorium.edu/venus/P_question4.html
the link above explains a lot but it doesn't provide the angle E and the distance between observer A and observer B so i can't exactly find the value of AU.
could someone please explain to me what values did he use for E and the distance between observer A and observer B? and how he got those values.
thanks
so far i understand that he used parallax and the venus transit to solve for the distance between Earth and sun but how did he exactly do it?
http://www.exploratorium.edu/venus/P_question4.html
the link above explains a lot but it doesn't provide the angle E and the distance between observer A and observer B so i can't exactly find the value of AU.
could someone please explain to me what values did he use for E and the distance between observer A and observer B? and how he got those values.
thanks
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