here's what he figured out. venus, the planet venus, second from a sun, a twin planet to our own earth, every so often the orbit of veep must and the orbit of us line up in such a way that we can actually see venus between us and the sun. we are third from the sun, venus is second from the sun, and we can see it once in a rare while as it scoots between us and the sun that we both go around. our boy edmond halle predicted if we pressure that and counted how much time it tookmoment of e sun, that we can see, we can figure out how far we are from the sun and how far we are from other planets and how far the other planets are from the sun. we can figure out how big the whole kitten caboodle is. we can calculate in a cosmic sense where we all are all from the briefest transit across the giant sun of it ty bit ty little venus. from such a little thing comes such a big thing to know, how