Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Robert Burns put it best when he wrote,

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

We prepare and we scheme, but inevitably it's not enough.

We usually end up right back where we started.

Guillaume L'Ajuntille knew about making plans.

Born in 1725 in Normandy, France, Guillaume's original plan had been to join the clergy.

Then he looked up to the stars.

One hundred years earlier, Galileo, Galilei had done the same and observed the moon, the

Milky Way, and much more.

Through his own telescope, Guillaume managed to observe dwarf galaxies and constellations.

His discoveries gained him a reputation in the scientific community, which helped earn

him a spot on a special astronomical project, a goal to measure the distance from the earth

to the sun.

It was commissioned by a Russian scientist named Mikhail Lomanisov and the French Academy

of Sciences.

Lomanisov figured out that by observing how Venus traveled between the sun and a superior

planet from different locations on earth, it could be possible to measure the distance

to the sun.

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