Relation Of A Voyage From Boston To Newfoundland For The Observation Of The Transit Of Venus June 6

by John Winthrop

$7,900 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

“You’ve seen her Venus in the Evening Sky, you’ve wish’d upon her, and now for a short time will she be seen in the Day-light, crossing the Disk of the Sun …. Thro’ our whole gazing-lives, Venus has been a tiny Dot of Light, going through phases like the Moon, ever against the black face of Eternity. But on the day of this Transit, all shall suddenly reverse, — as she is caught, dark, embodied, solid, against the face of the Sun, — a

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