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Paper, 'Of the late transit of Venus' by Samuel Horsley

Reference number: L&P/5/112

Date: 1769

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Subject: Astronomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Venus observed upon the Sun at Oxford, June 3, 1769'

Read 15 June 1769

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L&P/5/112
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1769
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Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

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Samuel Horsley

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Samuel Horsley, Paper, 'Of the late transit of Venus' by Samuel Horsley, 1769, L&P/5/112, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_112/paper-of-the-late-transit-of-venus-by-samuel-horsley, accessed on 16 June 2025

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