VIII. A delineation of the transit of Venus expected in the year 1769

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Latin
• Published: The Royal Society 1763
• Subjects: Venus; North Cape; Lapland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0009; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1763.0009

My Lord, I beg leave to present to the Royal Society a delineation of the transit of venus in the year 1769 [Tab. I.] which will be a much better transit for discovering the Sun's parallax than that in 1761 was. Although I have only mentioned Wardhuys in Norwegian Lapland, and the Solomon isles in the great South Sea, as proper places for observing the transit; yet I am sensible, that any other place near the north cape will be just as well for the northern observers; and Tuberon's Isle, or St. Bernard's, or the Fly Islands, in the great South Sea, will answer as well for the Southern.