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Two lectures on the parallax and distance of the sun, as deducible from the transit of Venus. : Read in Holden-Chapel at Harvard-College in Cambridge, New-England, in March 1769. / By John Winthrop, Esq. Hollisian Professor of the Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge, and F.R.S. ; [Three lines in Latin] ; Published by the general desire of the students.

Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 11536
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Format:
Microformat
Author/Creator:
Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11536.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Venus (Planet)--Transit--1769.
Venus (Planet).
Sun.
Parallax--Sun.
Parallax.
Physical Description:
47 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm (8vo)
4x6 in.
monochrome
service copy
negative
Place of Publication:
Boston: : Printed and sold by Edes & Gill in Queen-Street, M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]
Notes:
Half-title: Mr. Winthrop's lectures on the use of the transit of Venus.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11536).
Cited in:
Evans 11536
OCLC:
55837375

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