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English: Illustration of the Venus transit of 1761. Fig. 1 is the Sun’s passage over the telescope’s field of sight, Fig. 2 is the positions of Venus at six different occasions |
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| Source | Grandjean de Fouchy, “Observation du passage de V´enus sur le Soleil,” M´emoire de l’Acad´emie Royale des Sciences 63, 1761 (published 1763), 96–104, reproduced in Kragh, H. The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite. Birkhäuser, 2008. P. 43 |
| Author | Grandjean de Fouchy |
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