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Halley proposal of determining the parallax of the sun. en Diagram from Edmund Halley paper to the Royal Society Dr Halley's Dissertation of the Method of Determining the Parallax of the Sun by the Transit of Venus June showing how the Venus Transit could be used to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Sun nytimes