File:Harper’s Weekly (1883) children looking at transit of Venus.jpg
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English: Cover of Harper’s Weekly (1883), showing children in New York sharing a piece of smoked glass to follow the transit of Venus across the Sun the previous year. "Based on a painting by J. G. Brown" |
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| Source | April 28 issue of "Harper's Weekly", via copy at [1] (also seen at lower res at [2]) |
| Author | John George Brown (painting, copied as an engraving by unidentified artist for Harper's Weekly, 1883) |
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| current | 19:37, 7 June 2012 | | 3,206 × 4,764 (4.31 MB) | M5 (talk | contribs) | Higher resolution from http://diginit.library.ubc.ca/digitizers-blog/the-transit-of-venus-1883/ |
| 21:02, 5 June 2012 |  | 324 × 479 (199 KB) | İnfoCan (talk | contribs) | ||
| 17:17, 5 June 2012 |  | 324 × 479 (222 KB) | Soerfm (talk | contribs) | Color, crop | |
| 14:40, 5 June 2012 |  | 338 × 500 (68 KB) | İnfoCan (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Cover of Harper’s Weekly (1883), showing children in New York sharing a piece of smoked glass to follow the transit of Venus across the Sun.}} |Source =http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/05/29/science/... |
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