Venus at first internal contact with the Sun Finish:Float frame Mercedes 300SL Roadster

Mercedes 300SL Roadster

Petersburg

25th November 1993

In the background are moored ships and another pier

Venus at first internal contact with the Sun Finish:Float frame Mercedes 300SL RoadsterView taken at Mageroya, Nordkapp, Norway, during the 1769 Transit of Venus. Inscribed 'The appearance of Venus on the Sun at Magger & near the 1st internal contact by Wiliam Bayley.' Published as plate 13 for the paper 'Astronomical observations, made at the North Cape, for the Royal Society', by William Bayly, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59, 1769, pp. 262 272. William Bayly was employed as an assistant by Nevil Maskelyne at