Letters relating to the transit of Mercury over the sun, which is to happen May 6, 1753 : 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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Printed by Benjamin Franklin,
1753]
[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Benjamin Franklin], [1753] |
| Series: | Early American imprints
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| Item Description: | A letter from James Alexander to Benjamin Franklin, accompanied by translations of letters from the Marquis de la Gallissonnière and a memorial drawn up by Joseph-Nicholaus Delisle. Cf. Miller A letter from James Alexander to Benjamin Franklin, accompanied by translations of letters from the Marquis de la Gallissonnière and a memorial drawn up by Joseph-Nicholaus Delisle. See Miller A letter from James Alexander to Benjamin Franklin, accompanied by translations of letters from the Marquis de la Gallissonnière and a memorial drawn up by Joseph-Nicholaus Delisle. See Miller 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 ... " Includes hand-drawn diagrams of "the situation of Mercury upon the Sun, at his going out of the sun at Quebec..." Title from caption and first lines of text Title from caption title and first lines of text |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (4 pages) : illustration 1 online resource (4 pages) 4 p. ; (fol.) Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series |
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| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia |