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Description: | A replica of the tent used as a portable observatory on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific, a voyage that included the observation of the Transit of Venus of 1769 from Tahiti. This replica was made for a museum exhibition in 1969. It is shown here with apparatus similar to what James Cook and his astronomer Charles Green might have used to view the transit. Green was a former employee of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | tents James Transit of Venus Cook | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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