Lomonosov was the first to claim the existence of atmosphere on Venus
Lomonosov was the first person to hypothesize the existence of an atmosphere on Venus based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 in a small observatory near his house in Petersburg. In June 2012 a group of astronomers carried out experimental reconstruction of Lomonosov’s discovery of Venusian atmosphere with antique refractors during […]