The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author, Band 6Whittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1856 |
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... Transits of Venus and Mercury . -Proposal for an Observatory in Philadelphia • TO NEVIL MASKELYNE . 12 February , 1770 . Containing an Account of Professor Winthrop's Ob- servation of the Transit of Mercury over the Sun , November 9th ...
... Transits of Venus and Mercury . -Proposal for an Observatory in Philadelphia • TO NEVIL MASKELYNE . 12 February , 1770 . Containing an Account of Professor Winthrop's Ob- servation of the Transit of Mercury over the Sun , November 9th ...
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... I have not mentioned this proposal to any person here , but Mr. Coombe , and that under a promise that he will not speak of it , as I apprehend there is a pro- priety in its coming from you and the Astronomer Royal TRANSIT OF VENUS . 327.
... I have not mentioned this proposal to any person here , but Mr. Coombe , and that under a promise that he will not speak of it , as I apprehend there is a pro- priety in its coming from you and the Astronomer Royal TRANSIT OF VENUS . 327.
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... transit of Venus made in as many places as you can conveniently procure , if your leisure from more important business will permit , that we may here also endeavour to solve the curious problem of the sun's par- allax . If it would not ...
... transit of Venus made in as many places as you can conveniently procure , if your leisure from more important business will permit , that we may here also endeavour to solve the curious problem of the sun's par- allax . If it would not ...
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... transit of Venus . * I first perceived the little planet making an impression on the sun's limb at 2h 52 ' 41 ... transit completes three periods of forty - six years , since the first observation of Gassendi at Paris , in 1631. " I am ...
... transit of Venus . * I first perceived the little planet making an impression on the sun's limb at 2h 52 ' 41 ... transit completes three periods of forty - six years , since the first observation of Gassendi at Paris , in 1631. " I am ...
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... transit of Venus . I herewith send you a few copies of them , as they are printed in our Transactions , and I suppose in a more perfect form than that in which they were sent before , as that was done in a hurry , and I have not a copy ...
... transit of Venus . I herewith send you a few copies of them , as they are printed in our Transactions , and I suppose in a more perfect form than that in which they were sent before , as that was done in a hurry , and I have not a copy ...
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