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Vénus - 1769 - Tahiti - Charles Green - nationalité anglaise

 

Contacts de Vénus avec le Soleil lors du passage de 1769, par Charles Green et James Cook.

© Reproduced by courtesy of the Director and Librarian, the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

 

Transit of Venus by Mr. Green, with a reflecting telescope of 2 feet focus, magnifying power 140 times.

Philosophical Transactions Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, vol. LXI, for the Year 1771, 1772, p. 410 bis.

© Reproduced by courtesy of the Director and Librarian, the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.