|  | Vénus - 1761 - Ile de Sainte-Hélène - Nevil 
              Maskelyne (1732-1811) - nationalité britannique 
              
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                | Ecole anglaise, Nevil Maskelyne, extrait de la "Galerie 
                    de portraits" publié en 1833, gravure. Collection privée. Maskelyne deviendra Astronome 
                    royal en 1762, à la mort de Bradley. © Bridgeman/Giraudon. |    An Account of the Observations made on the Transit of Venus, June 
              6, 1761, in the Island of St. Helena : In a Letter to the Right 
              Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, President of the Royal Society, 
              from the Rev. 
              Nevil Maskelyne, M.A. and F.R.S. Philosophical Transactions Giving Some Account of the Present 
              Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable 
              Parts of the World, vol. LII, part I, For the Year 1761, London, 
              1762, p. 196-201. Texte imprimé en anglais. © Gallica, BNF. |