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La història de transit de venus

Type
Comic
Author
Josep Manel Carrasco, ICCUB-IEEC
Date
Language
CA
ES
EN
Size
12 pages
Format
On-line

Josep Manel Carrasco and Jordi del Río ofer us these comic, based in de Salvador Ribas's text. These short story speaks about the different expeditions organized in the XVIII and XIX centuries in order to observe the transit of Venus from different points of the planet to calculate the distance Earth-Sun.

 

These comic is aviable in Catalan, Spanish and English.

 

Supplementary files
Catalan
Spanish
English

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Source
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Language
CA

 

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Source
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Language
CA
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