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Vénus - 1761 - Madras, Inde - William Hirst - nationalité
britannique
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Le fort Saint-George sur la côte de Coromandel, Compagnie des Indes
Orientales, 1754.
La Compagnie anglaise des Indes
orientales possède un comptoir près de Madras.
Hirst y observe le passage
de 1761.
© National Maritime Museum.
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An Account of an Observation of the Transit of Venus over the
Sun, on the 6th of June
1761, at Madras ; by the Rev.
Mr. William Hirst, Chaplain of one of his Majesty's Ships
in the East Indies : Contained in a Letter wrote by him to the Right
Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, President of the Royal Society.
Dated Fort St. George, Ist July, 1761.
Philosophical Transactions Giving Some Account of the Present
Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable
Parts of the World, vol. LII, part I, For the Year 1761, London,
1762, p. 396-398.
Texte imprimé en anglais.
© Gallica, BNF.
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