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Radical rejectors of orthodoxy take center stage in a rich history of ideas Philip Ball TRAVERSAL | In June 1769, navigator James Cook and Charles Green, the astronomer accompany- ing him on his round-the-world voyage, observed the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun from the island of Tahiti. Cook’s scientific crew, which also included naturalist Joseph Banks, had been commissioned by the Royal Society to record the transit, the parallax of which could supply a measure of Earth’s distance from the Sun. “Long before we had fathomed the oceans,” writes Maria Popova, “we would know the dis- tance between our world and its star.” …
摘自《科学》(Science)第391卷 第6788期 · 2026年2月26日,Philip Ball。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。