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18 pages in Latin and 5 pages in English.

Subejct: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'De proximo veneris sub sole transitu'

Read 16 June 1760

Reference number
L&P/4/24
Earliest possible date
1760
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
23 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Roger Joseph Boscovich

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Roger Joseph Boscovich, Paper, 'Of the approaching transit of Venus' by Roger Joseph Boscovich, 1760, L&P/4/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_24/paper-of-the-approaching-transit-of-venus-by-roger-joseph-boscovich, accessed on 14 December 2025

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