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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.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1769 Win 68335.0
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1754 Mar (bw) Aa 754 L68.5
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Winthrop, John, 1714-1779 6852
Contributor:
United States. Boston.
Language:
English
Physical Description:
47,[1]p. ; 8⁰.
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.
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1983. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 312, no. 20).
Microfiche. Woodbridge, Ct. Research Publications International, 1992. 1 microfiche ; 11 x 15 cm. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America ; fiche 6,932). s1992 ctu b
Local Notes:
HSP in LCP.
Cited in:
Evans, 11536
Sabin, 104859

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