The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 253The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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The first transit ever observed was one in which Mercury , Venus's fellow inferior planet , passed across the sun's face , in November 1631. It was observed by Gassendi . He looked for a transit of Venus on December 6 , 1631 ; but ...
The first transit ever observed was one in which Mercury , Venus's fellow inferior planet , passed across the sun's face , in November 1631. It was observed by Gassendi . He looked for a transit of Venus on December 6 , 1631 ; but ...
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a a phenomenon precisely corresponding with that which , 243 years ago , was observed but by two lads only twenty years old . In Europe and America thousands will observe the phenomena of the transit , with the finest instruments ...
a a phenomenon precisely corresponding with that which , 243 years ago , was observed but by two lads only twenty years old . In Europe and America thousands will observe the phenomena of the transit , with the finest instruments ...
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So Delisle devised another plan by which the observations either of the beginning or end of transit would suffice . ... might determine the distance of Venus with the same theoretical accuracy if one observed the precise moment when ...
So Delisle devised another plan by which the observations either of the beginning or end of transit would suffice . ... might determine the distance of Venus with the same theoretical accuracy if one observed the precise moment when ...
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Contents
I | 114 |
Alexandria By C F GORDON CUMMING | 145 |
Author An at Home By W LYND | 166 |
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| Title | The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 253 Volumes 133-158; Volumes 357-394 of Early English newspapers |
| Publisher | A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2012 |
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