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Black drop effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:L: 100 x 50cm with scenic attractions

SKU 8113937728
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with scenic attractions

Everton team members wave from their plane before departing Speke airport

Watermarked 'Tacey Wisd & Co 1819'

4th September 1980

Black drop effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:L: 100 x 50cm with scenic attractionsViews of the teardrop effect observed during transit as Venus is near the solar edge. Four figures of the event seen by Hirst using a 2 foot long reflecting telescope to x55 magnification. Inscribed in ink above 'XI p. 229'. Not signed. The illustration corresponds to figures 5 8 on plate 10 and 11 of the published paper 'Account of several phaenomena observed during the Ingress of Venus into the solar disc' by William Hirst, Philosophical

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