Out of Diaries: 18 March 1769
On 18 March 1769, Chappe d’Auteroche finally left Veracruz on the east coast of Mexico. He was on his way to Baja California where he wanted to observe the second transit of Venus (after successfully...
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18 May 1761 marked an important event for many of the transit astronomers because it was a night of a lunar eclipse – one of the celestial encounters by which they would be able to determine their...
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