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- 1824 [1]
- Flamsteed House [2]
- Greenwich Observatory [3]
- observatory [4]
- Transit of Venus [5]
A late-Georgian engraving of Flamsteed House, Greenwich Observatory. If one can speak of an operational nerve centre of the 18th-century British ToV campaign - including observations made in Canada - it would be of this building, the "seat" of the Astronomer Royal. Image courtesy of Specula astronomica minima (©Specula astronomica minima).