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.
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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.
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- Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.
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- Boston: :: Printed and sold by Edes & Gill in Queen-Street,,
- M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]
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- Subject terms
- Parallax -- Sun
- Venus (Planet) -- Transit
- Sun.
- Lectures -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- 1769.
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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." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N09038.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.