This week’s episode of “Viewpoints Radio”...

This week’s episode of “Viewpoints Radio” features an 11-minute interview about The Day the World Discovered the Sun. From Viewpoints’ website:

The Transit of Venus: What it is and why it’s still important

Mark Anderson, author of “The Day the World Discovered the Sun”

Coming up on June 5th is a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus. We talk to a researcher and author Mark Anderson about what the transit is; how, in the 18th century, explorers and scientists travelled to the ends of the earth to observe and measure the transit; and what it means to science today.