The journey of the German expedition to observe the transit of Venus on December 9, 1874 at the Kerguelen Islands and its sojourn there
arXiv:2011.03402
Abstract
Astronomers are the surveyors of the sky. They have always dedicated much time and resources to determining the scale of distances in the universe. Today, the Hubble constant; yesterday, the solar parallar. The following account, attributed to Ladislas Weinek, a modest actor of this scientific epic, describes one of its numerous chapters.
Translation of a paper in French published in Pulsar, n°733, p.8-12,1999