Letters relating to the transit of Mercury over the sun, which is to happen May 6, 1753 [electronic resource] : Sir, What put me upon giving you the trouble of this, was, the sight which a few days ago I had of some letters from the Royal Academy of Sciences, at Paris, with directions for observing in Canada, the end of a transit of Mercury over the sun ..
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| Other title: | LLMC online. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | A letter from James Alexander to Benjamin Franklin, accompanied by translations of letters from the Marquis de la Gallissonniè€re and a memorial drawn up by Joseph-Nicholaus Delisle. See Miller. Title from caption and first lines of text. Erroneously attributed to Professor John Winthrop of Harvard by Ford. Imprint supplied by Miller. Mistakenly described as a Boston imprint by Evans and Ford. Includes hand-drawn diagrams of "the situation of Mercury upon the Sun, at his going out of the sun at Quebec ..." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (4 pages) : illustration. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed May 28, 2019) |
| Citation/References Note: | Evans Ford, W.C. Broadsides, Miller, C.W. Franklin, |