Key Information
Reference code
K/MUS/1/1
Title
Manuscript volume 'Observations on the Transit of Venus' at Royal Observatory, Kew, 1768-1769
Date(s)
- 1768 - 1769 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Manuscript notebook entitled 'Observations on the Transit of Venus', made at the Royal Observatory, Kew, Surrey, comprising astronomical observations with tables of viewing data, describing transit witnessed by King George III and others, 3 June 1769, with notes signed by Stephen Demainbray, astronomer. Also observations on the same transit of Venus by Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, University of Göttingen, Germany, at Göttingen Observatory, compiled 22 June 1769, and of a lunar eclipse observed by Kaestner at Göttingen, 23 December 1768. 1 volume