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Images of Venus: UV Image of Venus Showing Cloud Patterns.
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UV Image of Venus Showing Cloud Patterns. Ultraviolet images taken from the Galileo probe show Venus's cloud patterns.
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Images of Venus: The Surface of Venus
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The Surface of Venus. Radar imagery from the Magellan space probe gives us a view of the planet's surface.
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Images of Venus: Venus in Visible Light
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Venus in Visible Light. Seen in visible light from the space probe Galileo, the planet appears without distinguishing features.
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Images of Venus: Venus in Transit
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Venus in Transit. During a transit, Venus looks like a black dot on the Sun's surface.
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Johannes Kepler
(1571-1630)
Tabulæ Rudolphinæ
(Rudolphine Tables)
Ulm:
J. Saurii,
1627.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Christoph Scheiner
(1575-1650)
Rosa Ursina
(The Rose of Orsini)
Bracciani:
Andream Phæum,
1630.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Christoph Scheiner
(1575-1650)
Rosa Ursina
(The Rose of Orsini)
Bracciani:
Andream Phæum,
1630.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Christoph Scheiner
(1575-1650)
Rosa Ursina
(The Rose of Orsini)
Bracciani:
Andream Phæum,
1630.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Pierre Gassendi
(1592-1655)
"Mercurius in sole visus & Venus invisa".
Opera omnia
(Mercury seen upon the Sun & Venus unseen)
Florence:
Typis Regiæ Celsitudinis …,
1727.
Volume 4
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Johannes Hevelius
(1611-1687)
Mercurius in Sole visus
(Mercury seen upon the Sun)
Gdansk:
by the author,
1662.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Jeremiah Horrocks
(c. 1617-1641)
Transit of Venus across the Sun
London:
William Macintosh,
1859?.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Jeremiah Horrocks
(c. 1617-1641)
Transit of Venus across the Sun
London:
William Macintosh,
1859?.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Eyre Crowe
(1824-1910)
Jeremiah Horrocks Watching the Transit of Venus in 1639
1891.
Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool (The Walker)
Jeremiah Horrocks Watching the Transit of Venus in 1639
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Edmond Halley
(1656-1742)
"Methodus singularis qual Solis Parallaxis sive distantia a Terra (Remarkable method for determining the solar parallax of the distance from the Sun to the Earth)".
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
London:
W. Innys,
1717.
Volume 29
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Aristarchus of Samos
De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae
(On the sizes and the distances of the Sun and the Moon)
Pisa:
Camillo Fanchischini,
1572.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Edmond Halley
(1656-1742)
Catalogus stellarum australium
(Catalogue of the southern stars)
London:
T. James,
1679.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Guillaume Le Gentil de La Galaisiere
(1725-1792)
"De la conjunction inferieure de Venus avec le Soleil (On the inferior conjunction of Venus with the sun)".
Histoire de l' Academie Royale des sciences, annee 1753
Paris:
deI'Imprimerie Royale,
1757.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Guillaume Le Gentil de La Galaisiere
(1725-1792)
"De la conjunction inferieure de Venus avec le Soleil (On the inferior conjunction of Venus with the sun)".
Histoire de l' Academie Royale des sciences, annee 1753
Paris:
deI'Imprimerie Royale,
1757.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Johannes Hevelius
(1611-1687)
Machinæ coelestis
(Celestial Machines)
Gdansk:
by the author,
1673.
Gift of the Burndy Library
The astronomers Johannes and Elisabetha Hevelius using their sextant at their private observatory in Gdansk.
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James Giles
Orrery
London:
1740-80.
Courtesy of the National Museum of American History, Behring Center
Orrery
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John Singleton Copley
(1738-1815)
Portrait John Withrop
c. 1773.
Courtesy of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the executors of the Estate of John Winthrop, grandson, 1894
Portrait John Withrop
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Nevil Maskelyne
(1731-1811)
Instructions relative to the observations of the ensuing transit of the planet Venus. . .
London:
W. Richardson and S. Clark,
1768.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Nevil Maskelyne
(1731-1811)
Instructions relative to the observations of the ensuing transit of the planet Venus. . .
London:
W. Richardson and S. Clark,
1768.
Gift of the Burndy Library
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Benjamin West
(1730-1813)
New-England almanack … for the year of our Lord Christ, 1769
Boston:
Mein and Fleeming,
[1768].
Gift of Ronald S. Wilkinson
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Benjamin West
(1730-1813)
New-England almanack … for the year of our Lord Christ, 1769
Boston:
Mein and Fleeming,
[1768].
Gift of Ronald S. Wilkinson
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Benjamin West
(1730-1813)
New-England almanack … for the year of our Lord Christ, 1769
Boston:
Mein and Fleeming,
[1768].
Gift of Ronald S. Wilkinson
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Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers
(Encyclopedia or descriptive dictionary of the sciences, arts, and trades, plate volume XII)
Paris:
Chez Panckoucke et al.,
1777.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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George Adams
Gregorian reflecting telescope
London:
c. 1750-1800.
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Gregorian reflecting telescope
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Edward Scriven
(1775-1841)
Portrait of Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal from 1765 to 1811
(from a portrait by Van de Puyl)
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Portrait of Rev. Nevil Maskelyne
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Johann Elert Bode
(1747-1826)
Deutliche Abhandlung … von dem bevorstehenden merkwürdigen Durchgang der Venus…
(Clear treatise on the forthcoming remarkable transit of Venus)
Hamburg:
Dieterich Anton Harmsen,
1769.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Page from Deutliche Abhandlung
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Johann Elert Bode
(1747-1826)
Deutliche Abhandlung … von dem bevorstehenden merkwürdigen Durchgang der Venus…
(Clear treatise on the forthcoming remarkable transit of Venus)
Hamburg:
Dieterich Anton Harmsen,
1769.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Page from Deutliche Abhandlung
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Artist Unknown
Portrait of Jean Chappe d’Auteroche
For the 1769 transit, Jean Chappe d’Auteroche led a party to the southern tip of Baja California. They observed the transit under ideal conditions, but a few days later an epidemic struck the area, killing three-fourths of the local population and everyone in the expedition except for Chappe and Pauly, his engineer. Chappe lingered for a short while but died before leaving Baja. Pauly managed to get back to France with all of the observation records
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Guillaume Le Gentil de La Galaisiere
(1725-1792)
Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde
Paris:
deI'Imprimerie Royale,
1779.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Ruins of Pondicherry; Le Gentil’s observing station was on the structure just to the right of the flagpole
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Guillaume Le Gentil de La Galaisiere
(1725-1792)
Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde
Paris:
deI'Imprimerie Royale,
1779.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Figure of Hindu god Brahma
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Guillaume Le Gentil de La Galaisiere
(1725-1792)
Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde
Paris:
deI'Imprimerie Royale,
1779.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Figures
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Guillaume Le Gentil de La Galaisiere
(1725-1792)
Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde
Paris:
deI'Imprimerie Royale,
1779.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Title page
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Charles Mason
(1730-1787)
; Dixon, Jeremiah d. 1777
"Observations made at the the Cape of Good Hope".
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
London:
L. Davis and C. Reymers,
1762.
Volume LII (1761)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Samuel Dunn
(d. 1794)
"A Determination of the exact Moments of Time when the Planet Venus was at external and internal contace with the Sun's Limb…,".
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London
London:
Lockyer Davis,
1771.
Volume LX (1770)
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John Hawkesworth
(1715?-1773)
account of the voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere…
London:
W. Strahan and T. Cadell,
1773.
Vol. II
Gift of the Burndy Library
Hawkesworth’s well-known accounts of Cook’s voyages helped publicize a new era of exploration. This account of the first voyage includes a map of Tahiti (or “Otaheite”). At the top of the main island, you can see “Point Venus,” where Cook and Green observed the 1769 transit of Venus.
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John Hawkesworth
(1715?-1773)
account of the voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere…
London:
W. Strahan and T. Cadell,
1773.
Vol. II
Gift of the Burndy Library
H.M.S. Swallow in Tahiti.
When Captain Samuel Wallis of the Swallow returned to England in 1768 and told everyone about the island of Tahiti, many agreed that it would be the best place to see the 1769 transit.
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John Hawkesworth
(1715?-1773)
account of the voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere…
London:
W. Strahan and T. Cadell,
1773.
Vol. II
Gift of the Burndy Library
Tahitian vessel from John Hawkesworth’s An Account of the voyages…, vol. II, 1773
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John Hawkesworth
(1715?-1773)
account of the voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere…
London:
W. Strahan and T. Cadell,
1773.
Vol. II
Gift of the Burndy Library
Hawkesworth’s well-known accounts of Cook’s voyages helped publicize a new era of exploration. This account of the first voyage includes a map of Tahiti (or “Otaheite”). At the top of the main island, you can see “Point Venus,” where Cook and Green observed the 1769 transit of Venus.
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John Hawkesworth
(1715?-1773)
account of the voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere…
London:
W. Strahan and T. Cadell,
1773.
Vol. II
Gift of the Burndy Library
When Captain Samuel Wallis of the Swallow returned to England in 1768 and told everyone about the island of Tahiti, many agreed that it would be the best place to see the 1769 transit.
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Charles Green
; Cook, James (1728-1779)
"Observations made … at King George's Island [Tahiti] in the South Sea".
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. LXI. For the year 1771
London:
Lockyer Davis …,
1772.
Volume LXI (1771)
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Charles Green
; Cook, James (1728-1779)
"Observations made … at King George's Island [Tahiti] in the South Sea".
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. LXI. For the year 1771
London:
Lockyer Davis …,
1772.
Volume LXI (1771)
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David Rittenhouse
(1732-1796)
; and others
"An account of the Transit of Venus…".
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia:
R. Aitken & Son,
1789.
vol. I, 2d ed. Corrected
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David Rittenhouse
(1732-1796)
; and others
"An account of the Transit of Venus…".
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia:
R. Aitken & Son,
1789.
vol. I, 2d ed. Corrected
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David Rittenhouse
(1732-1796)
; and others
"An account of the Transit of Venus…".
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia:
R. Aitken & Son,
1789.
vol. I, 2d ed. Corrected
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John Winthrop
(1714-1779)
Relation of a voyage from Boston to Newfoundland, for the observation of the transit of Benus, June 6, 1761
Boston:
Edes and Gill …,
1761.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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John Winthrop
(1714-1779)
Relation of a voyage from Boston to Newfoundland, for the observation of the transit of Benus, June 6, 1761
Boston:
Edes and Gill …,
1761.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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Joseph Henry statue in front of Smithsonian "Castle"
Smithsonian Institution
Joseph Henry statue in front of Smithsonian "Castle"
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John Philip Sousa in uniform as the leader of the U.S. Marine Band
c. 1892.
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John Philip Sousa in uniform as the leader of the U.S. Marine Band
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John Philip Sousa
(1854-1932)
Transit of Venus March
Washington, D.C.:
Courtesy of Collections of Music Division, Library of Congress
Cover of "Transit of Venus March"
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John Philip Sousa
(1854-1932)
transit of Venus
Boston:
Small, Maynard & Company,
[1920].
Courtesy of George Washington University, Special Collections Department, Gelman Library
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John Philip Sousa
(1854-1932)
transit of Venus
Boston:
Small, Maynard & Company,
[1920].
Courtesy of George Washington University, Special Collections Department, Gelman Library
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George Forbes
(1849-1936)
transit of Venus
London, New York:
Macmillan and Co.,
1874.
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"The transit of Venus".
Scientific American, Volume XXXI, no. 8, August 22,
New York:
Munn & Co.,
1874.
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U.S. Commission on the Transit of Venus
Instructions for observing the transit of Venus
Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office,
1874.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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U.S. Commission on the Transit of Venus
Atlas to part II of the papers relating to the transit of Venus in 1874
Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office,
1873.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Archives
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U.S. Commission on the Transit of Venus
Atlas to part II of the papers relating to the transit of Venus in 1874
Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office,
1873.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Archives
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U.S. Commission on the Transit of Venus
Atlas to part II of the papers relating to the transit of Venus in 1874
Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office,
1873.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Archives
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U.S. Commission on the Transit of Venus
Atlas to part II of the papers relating to the transit of Venus in 1874
Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office,
1873.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Archives
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Observations of the transit of Venus, 9 December, 1874 : made at stations in New South Wales
Sydney:
C. Potter,
1892.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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Observations of the transit of Venus, 9 December, 1874 : made at stations in New South Wales
Sydney:
C. Potter,
1892.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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Observations of the transit of Venus, 9 December, 1874 : made at stations in New South Wales
Sydney:
C. Potter,
1892.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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Observations of the transit of Venus, 9 December, 1874 : made at stations in New South Wales
Sydney:
C. Potter,
1892.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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Observations of the transit of Venus, 9 December, 1874 : made at stations in New South Wales
Sydney:
C. Potter,
1892.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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Observations of the transit of Venus, 9 December, 1874 : made at stations in New South Wales
Sydney:
C. Potter,
1892.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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Stackpole & Brothers
Broken-tube transit instrument
New York:
1874.
Courtesy of the National Museum of American History, Behring Center
Broken-tube transit instrument
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Stackpole & Brothers
Broken-tube transit instrument
New York:
1874.
Courtesy of the National Museum of American History, Behring Center
Broken-tube transit instrument
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Glass-plate negative boxes used during the 1882 transit of Venus expeditions by the U.S. Naval Observatory
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Boxes used to house glass-plate negatives taken by the 1882 U.S. expeditions
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Glass-plate negative boxes used during the 1882 transit of Venus expeditions by the U.S. Naval Observatory
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Boxes used to house glass-plate negatives taken by the 1882 U.S. expeditions
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Glass-plate negative boxes used during the 1882 transit of Venus expeditions by the U.S. Naval Observatory
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Boxes used to house glass-plate negatives taken by the 1882 U.S. expeditions
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Glass-plate negative boxes used during the 1882 transit of Venus expeditions by the U.S. Naval Observatory
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Boxes used to house glass-plate negatives taken by the 1882 U.S. expeditions
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E. Howard Clock Company
Mercury pendulum clock
Boston:
1874.
Courtesy of the National Museum of American History
Mercury pendulum clock
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E. Howard Clock Company
Mercury pendulum clock
Boston:
1874.
Courtesy of the National Museum of American History
Mercury pendulum clock
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Pietro Tacchini
(1838-1905)
passaggio di Venere sul sole dell'8-9 dicembre 1874
(The transit of Venus on 8-9 December 1874)
Palermo:
Lao,
1875.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Page from Il passaggio di Venere sul sole
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George Biddell Airy, editor
(1801-1892)
Account of observations of the transit of Venus, 1874, December 8
London:
Her Majesty's Stationery Office,
1881.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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Franscisco Díaz Covarrubias
(1833-1889)
Viaje de la Comision Astronómica Mexicana al Japon : para observar el tránsito del planeta Vénus…
(Voyage of the Mexican Astronomical Commission to Japan to observe the transit of Venus)
Mexico City:
C. Ramiro y Ponce de Leon,
1876.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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Members of the U.S. transit-of-Venus expedition at the site of Kerguelen Island putting up the water casks at the photography building
1874.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Members of the U.S. transit-of-Venus expedition at the site of Kerguelen Island
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U.S. Naval Observatory staff at the observing station on Kerguelen Island, 1874
1874.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
U.S. Naval Observatory staff at the observing station on Kerguelen Island
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Testing the equipment at the 1874 American transit-of-Venus observation station on Kerguelen Island
1874.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
Testing the equipment at the 1874 American transit-of-Venus observation station on Kerguelen Island
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U.S. Naval Observatory observing station in Nagasaki, Japan, 1874
1874.
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U.S. Naval Observatory observing station in Nagasaki, Japan
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Observation station at the 1876 Centennial Exposition
1876.
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Observation station at the 1876 Centennial Exposition
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Glass-plate negative photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus taken by one of the U.S. Naval Observatory expeditions
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Glass-plate negative photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus taken by one of the U.S. Naval Observatory expeditions
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Glass-plate negative photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus
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Glass-plate negative photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus taken by one of the U.S. Naval Observatory expeditions
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Glass-plate negative photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus
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Glass-plate negative photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus taken by one of the U.S. Naval Observatory expeditions
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Glass-plate negative photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus
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Glass-plate negative photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus
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Glass-plate negative photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus
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Boxes containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
1874.
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Box containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
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Boxes containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
1874.
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Box containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
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Boxes containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
1874.
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Box containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
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Boxes containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
1874.
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Box containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
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Boxes containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
1874.
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Box containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
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Boxes containing records of the 1874 U.S. Naval Observatory transit-of-Venus expeditions
1874.
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1874.
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1874.
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Alvan Clark & Sons
Refracting telescope with 5-inch objective lens
Boston:
1874.
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This telescope is one of eight identical models built expressly for the U.S. Naval Observatory’s expeditions to observe transits of Venus in the 19th century
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Alvan Clark & Sons
Refracting telescope with 5-inch objective lens
Boston:
1874.
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This telescope is one of eight identical models built expressly for the U.S. Naval Observatory’s expeditions to observe transits of Venus in the 19th century
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Recueil de mémoires, rapports et documents relatifs à l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le soleil
(Collection of memoirs, reports, and documents relating to the obsrvations of the transit of Venus, volum III, part II, atlas of plates)
Paris:
Gauthier-Villars,
1885.
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Recueil de mémoires, rapports et documents relatifs à l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le soleil
(Collection of memoirs, reports, and documents relating to the obsrvations of the transit of Venus, volum III, part II, atlas of plates)
Paris:
Gauthier-Villars,
1885.
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Recueil de mémoires, rapports et documents relatifs à l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le soleil
(Collection of memoirs, reports, and documents relating to the obsrvations of the transit of Venus, volum III, part II, atlas of plates)
Paris:
Gauthier-Villars,
1885.
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(Collection of memoirs, reports, and documents relating to the obsrvations of the transit of Venus, volum III, part II, atlas of plates)
Paris:
Gauthier-Villars,
1885.
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(Collection of memoirs, reports, and documents relating to the obsrvations of the transit of Venus, volum III, part II, atlas of plates)
Paris:
Gauthier-Villars,
1885.
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(Collection of memoirs, reports, and documents relating to the obsrvations of the transit of Venus, volum III, part II, atlas of plates)
Paris:
Gauthier-Villars,
1885.
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U.S. Naval Observatory
Observations of the transit of Venus…, part II, sections 1-4 [page proofs]
Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office,
1881.
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Observations of the transit of Venus…, part II, sections 1-4 [page proofs]
Washington, D.C.:
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1881.
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Observations of the transit of Venus…, part II, sections 1-4 [page proofs]
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1881.
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Observations of the transit of Venus…, part II, sections 1-4 [page proofs]
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1881.
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