Passage de Venus

Passage de Venus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874. They were taken in Japan by the French astronomer Pierre Janssen using his 'photographic revolver'.[1][2]

It is the oldest film in the Internet Movie Database.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Doucet, Jean-François. "La "photographie du temps" avant le cinéma - Novum Corpus". www.jf-doucet.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  2. ↑ The 1874 Transit of Venus Observed in Japan by the French, and Associated Relics

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