Venus at first internal contact with the Sun J. Lyons and Co 3rd February 1983

3rd February 1983

View of a brew house on Stoney Lane

View of Elizabeth Powis

In 1904 they started to make motorcycles

Venus at first internal contact with the Sun J. Lyons and Co 3rd February 1983View taken at Mageroya, Nordkapp, Norway, during the 1769 Transit of Venus. Inscribed 'The appearance of Venus on the Sun at Magger & near the 1st internal contact by Wiliam Bayley.' Published as plate 13 for the paper 'Astronomical observations, made at the North Cape, for the Royal Society', by William Bayly, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59, 1769, pp. 262 272. William Bayly was employed as an assistant by Nevil Maskelyne at