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Passage of Venus (1874)

1874 Pierre Jules César Janssen - Passage artificiel de Venus sur le Soleil

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human inte...