'Black drop' effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:L: 90 x 60cm on its opening night in

on its opening night in 1821 (1823)

January 24th 1987

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'Black drop' effect during the 1769 Transit of Venus Size:L: 90 x 60cm on its opening night inSketch showing the planet Venus at ingress on its passage across the face of the Sun. Detail from a letter by Samuel Horsley, giving an account of the Transit of Venus observed at Oxford, England, using an 18 inch reflecting telescope. The illustration appeared as plate 8 of the published paper 'Venus observed upon the Sun at Oxford, June 3, 1769', by Samuel Horsley, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59 (1769) pp. 183 188.