History

The story of Guillaume Le Gentil, the astronomer who spent 8 years of his life on a quest to observe the transit of Venus, during which he was declared legally dead and his wife remarried, only for the sky to end up being cloudy on the day of the transit https://t.co/4GIlWYS9Fn pic.twitter.com/x49iEZadGM

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 8, 2020