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Description	English: Sketchings of the 1769 Venus Transit
Date	1769 (depicted) 1771 (publication)
Source	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Author	Captain James Cook and Charles Green
Permission ( Reusing this file)	Public Domain

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2011-03-05 03:59 (UTC) | Mknight1229 | 13953 (bytes) | 333×427 | This image is in the public domain due to its age.

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