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AN exact value of the velocity of light is equally interesting to astronomers and physicists. It is interestiog to astronomers, for it enables us to calculate an important and not exactly known number, namely, the distance from the sun to the earth, for which cause the learned world is looking forward with so much impatience to the passage of Venus on the disc of the sun, as the observation of this phenomenon, it is hoped, will fill up this chasm. It is interesting to physicists likewise, it is evident, but especially since the remarkable researches* of Prof. Clerk-Maxwell, who has found an unexpected relation between the theories of light and electricity.
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New Experiments for the Determination of the Velocity of Light by M. Alfred Cornu . Nature 8, 184–186 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008184a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008184a0