| 1 | Creator: | Fleuriais, Georges-Ernest, 1840-1895 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Passage de Vénus, Mission de Santa Cruz (Patagonie), Photograph Album
| | | | Dates: | 1903-1962 | | | | Abstract: | The French Académie des Sciences organized a total of ten expeditions to observe the transit of Venus in 1882, including parties that set up in Haiti, Martinique, Mexico, Florida, Chile, and Cape Horn. The expedition to Santa Cruz on the Patagonian (Argentine) coast was led by the naval officer Georges-Ernest Fleuriais (1840-1895), director of the Cartography Department of the French Navy. Aboard the ship
Volage, Fleuriais sailed to Argentina and made observations of the transit just before Venus passed its ascending node on December 6, 1882.
The 31 albumen photographs bound into the album titled "Passage de Venus 1882 -- Mission de Santa Cruz (Patagonie)" document a French astronomical expedition of that year to the Argentine coast. Rather than photographs of the transit itself, the album contains images of the members of the expedition, the crew of the
Volage, and the base camp. Only a few images contain captions (written in pencil on the mount). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F63 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Académie des sciences (France). | Astronomy--France | Fleuriais, Georges-Ernest, 1840-1895 | Photographs | Scientific expeditions--France | Venus (Planet)--Transit | |
| 2 | Creator: | Dovaston, John,1740-1808. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Astronomical Notebook
| | | | Dates: | 1764-1799 | | | | Abstract: | The amateur astronomer and scientific instrument maker John Dovaston was born into a long-established Shropshire family on April 25, 1740, the son of John Dovaston and Margaret (Rogers). While still in his twenties, Dovaston used the proceeds from his sugar plantations in Jamaica to build "The Nursery," an estate near West Felton, near Shrewsbury, where he lived until his death on April 4, 1808.
Dovaston's astronomical notebook contains observations on the transits of Venus and Mercury, 1761-1799; the eclipse of the moon, July 1776; and the comet of August 1797; as well as more general notes on stellar positions, astronomical instruments, calendars, and the measurement of latitude and longitude. The volume is illustrated, and includes copies of two letters received from his fellow amateur astronomer, Waldron Hill. Dovaston's interest in astrology is suggested by his detailed notes on casting a horoscope ("The Manner of Erecting a scheme or figure of the Heavens"), as well as by the presence of nativities for his son (1782) and for William Dovaston (1765). | | | | Call #: | Mss.522.D75 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Astrology--Great Britain--18th century | Astronomy--Great Britain--18th century | Beyond Early America | Bookplates | Calendars | Comets | Dovaston, John Freeman Millward, 1782-1854 | Dovaston, John,1740-1808. | Eclipses. | Hill, Waldron | Horoscopes | Latitude--Observations | Mercury (Planet)--Transit | Venus (Planet)--Transit | |
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