How did Astronomers use the transit of Venus across the Sun to calculate the distance between the Sun and Earth back in the 17th century?

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How did Astronomers use the transit of Venus across the Sun to calculate the distance between the Sun and Earth back in the 17th century?

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By recording exactly the moments that Venus “touched” the sun, or was completely within the sun’s disc. These times would be slightly different for different places, because of parallax.

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