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Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826)
Deutliche Abhandlung … von dem bevorstehenden merkwürdigen Durchgang der Venus…(Clear treatise on the forthcoming remarkable transit of Venus)
Hamburg: Dieterich Anton Harmsen, 1769.
Map showing the areas from which the 1769 transit would be observable.
Image Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory Library
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The June 5th-6th transit of Venus way back in the day. Y’know. 1631 map of the transit, which occurred in 1639. Madness....
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