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The Transit of Venus by Peter Aughton | The Independent
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Jeremiah Horrocks's claim to fame is that, in 1639, he was the first person to observe a transit of Venus. These rare events occur in pairs at intervals of...
The Fateful Voyage : Captain Cook's Last Great Journey by Peter...
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In 1775, Capt James Cook, newly returned from his second epic voyage of discovery, wrote to his friend John Walker, the Whitby shipowner who had set…
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