"We are now on the eve of the second transit of a pair, after which there will be no other till the twenty-first century of our era has dawned upon the earth, and the June flowers are blooming in 2004.... What will be the state of science when the next transit season arrives God only knows."
--U.S. Naval Observatory astronomer William Harkness, 1882
This article was originally published with the title The Transit of Venus.
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