Two lectures on the parallax and distance of the sun, as deducible from the transit of Venus. Read in Holden-Chapel at Harvard-College in Cambridge, New-England, in March 1769.

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British Library

W028422

Half-title: Mr. Winthrop's lectures on the use of the transit of Venus.

Boston: Printed and sold by Edes & Gill in Queen-Street, M, DCC, LXIX. [1769]. 47, [1]p.; 8°