Venus Observed is a play in blank verse by the English dramatist and poet Christopher Fry. The play concerns a Duke who decides to remarry for a third...

Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is a terrestrial planet and is the closest in mass and size to its orbital neighbour Earth. Venus is notable...

recorded the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. During a transit, Venus appears as a small black...

have observed the transit from his location; he may have mistaken a sunspot for Venus. He used his transit observation to help establish that Venus was...

Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan...

(1959), he tended to concentrate on theatre work, in such productions as Venus Observed, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Reluctant Debutante and The Last of...

Galileo Galilei in 1610. Although the extreme crescent phase of Venus has since been observed with the naked eye, there are no indisputable historical pre-telescopic...

London and New York in such plays as Bell, Book and Candle (1950), Venus Observed, The Cocktail Party, The Kingfisher and The Love of Four Colonels, which...

The atmosphere of Venus is the very dense layer of gasses surrounding the planet Venus. Venus's atmosphere is composed of 96.5% carbon dioxide and 3.5%...

v t e Captain James Cook Voyages First voyage (1769 transit of Venus observed from Tahiti) Second voyage Third voyage (Death) Vessels HMS Adventure HMS Discovery...

A transit of Venus was observed from Earth on 8 June 2004. The event received significant attention, since it was the first Venus transit after the invention...

and was applied to the transits of Venus observed in 1761 and 1769, and then again in 1874 and 1882. Transits of Venus occur in pairs, but less than one...

Year TV Show Role Notes 1960 Venus Observed [de] The Duke of Altair based on Venus Observed 1962 Laura [de] Waldo Lydecker based on Laura 1963 The Doctor's...

(Hampstead Theatre) King Lear in New York (Chichester Festival Theatre) Venus Observed (Chichester Festival Theatre) The Sisterhood (Chichester Festival Theatre)...

connect Mercury's magnetic field to Space. Venus Express observed two large shape-shifting vortices on Venus' poles (polar vortices) in 2006 on one of...

BC) Venus Pudica Capitoline Venus Venus de' Medici Esquiline Venus Venus Felix Venus of Arles Venus Anadyomene (also here) Venus, Pan and Eros Venus Genetrix...

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to the temperate and subtropical wetlands of North Carolina and South Carolina, on...

Castle as Ring Round the Moon for director Peter Brook. He also wrote Venus Observed, which was produced at the St James's Theatre by Laurence Olivier. A...

New York: Penguin, 1994. Cooper, Henry S. F., Jr. The Evening Star: Venus Observed. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Cooper, Henry...

Débarbat, Suzanne; Launay, Françoise (2006). "The 1874 Transit of Venus Observed in Japan by the French, and Associated Relics". Journal of Astronomical...

The possibility of life on Venus is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to Venus' proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no definitive evidence...

1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti. For details of the 2004 and 2012 transits, see Transit of Venus, 2004 and Transit of Venus, 2012. "1874 December...

Year Title Role(s) Notes Ref. 1946 The Guinea Pig West End debut 1950 Venus Observed Edgar 1950 Ring Round the Moon Frederic, Hugo Broadway debut 1951 The...

satellite of Venus reportedly sighted by Giovanni Cassini in 1672 and by several other astronomers in following years. It was 'observed' up to 30 times...

The Belt of Venus – also called Venus's Girdle, the antitwilight arch, or antitwilight – is an atmospheric phenomenon visible shortly before sunrise or...

39 RADA Cabaret 30 March 1949 Personal appearance Lyceum Theatre 1 Venus Observed 18 January – 5 August 1950 The Duke of Altair Also director St James's...

Sun, Venus as seen from Earth exhibits visible phases in much the same manner as the Earth's Moon. Galileo Galilei observed the phases of Venus in December...

James Cook first landed on Tahiti, where he planned the 1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti and Moʻorea. At Moʻorea, where Taʻaroa was chief, Cook first...

Fanciful, The Provok'd Wife at the National Theatre Studio 1992, Rosabel, Venus Observed at the Chichester Festival 1992, Eve, Cain at the Chichester Festival...

by the quality of the instruments. The only occultation of Mars by Venus observed was that of 13 October 1590, seen by Michael Maestlin at Heidelberg...