M&D Observing at the Cape

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Very nice 1944 article on M&D & the Venus Transit (article which mentions to
my surprise the star Fomalhaut, the ship in Against the Day; and also: "The
only report from the Western Hemisphere was made from St. John's,
Newfoundland, by Professor John Winthrop of Harvard College who had been
sent to this post by the Colony of Massachusetts Bay").

https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/viewFile/21511/21280

THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION OF CHARLES MASON AND JEREMIAH DIXON*
By THOMAS D. COPE
University of Pennsylvania

Michel.



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