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Astronomy: a large reflecting telescope, and projection of the transit of Venus. Engraving.
Wellcome Collection

Astronomy: a large reflecting telescope, and projection of the transit of Venus. Engraving.

Unknown artist

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: An apparatus adapted to the reflecting telescope for shewing the transit of Venus.

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