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In 1761, Mason was assigned to travel to the island of Sumatra to observe the Transit of Venus as part of an international effort to record data that would enable scientists to determine the distance from the earth to the sun.
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1761 and Mason
Jeremiah Dixon served as assistant to Charles Mason in 1761 when the Royal Society selected Mason to observe the transit of Venus from Sumatra.
In the novel Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon the title characters set sail for Sumatra in 1761 to view the Venus transit in the sixth-rate ship The Seahorse.
When Rogers comes to town in the summer of 1761, he greets Towne as a long-lost friend ... and asks Towne to be his best man, as he has proposed to Elizabeth, whom he met through fellow Mason Rev.
1761 and was
He was educated at the Collège des Quatre-Nations ( also known as Collège Mazarin ) from 1754 to 1761, studying chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematics.
The Third Battle of Panipat ( January 1761 ), fought between largely Muslim and largely Hindu armies was waged along a twelve-kilometer front.
It was subsequently acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte, and known as " The Queen's House ".
Bertrand Andrieu ( November 4, 1761 – December 10, 1822 ) was a French engraver of medals from Bordeaux.
In 1757, he engaged in a bitter dispute with playwright Carlo Gozzi, which left him utterly disgusted with the tastes of his countrymen ; so much so that in 1761 he moved to Paris, where he received a position at court and was put in charge of the Theatre Italien.
In 1761 during the Seven Years War a British expedition against Dominica led by Lord Rollo was successful and the island was conquered along with several other Caribbean islands.
Though the original draft was written in 1761, he made additions to it year after year until his death twenty-three years later.
Thus, in the broadest sense, the first electrified musical instrument was the Denis d ' or, dating from 1753, followed shortly by the Clavecin électrique by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste de Laborde in 1761.
In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.
He was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1761 and from 1774 to 1790.
He was secretary to a Provincial Council of Pennsylvania Indian commission in 1761 that made a treaty with the Delaware and several Iroquois tribes.
Scottish politics in the late 18th century was dominated by the Whigs, with the benign management of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll ( 1682 – 1761 ), who was in effect the " viceroy of Scotland " from the 1720s until his death in 1761.
Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.
" Hannover " ( as it was spelled in the 1761 charter ) was named either after a local parish in Sprague, Connecticut, or after the House of Hanover in honor of the reigning British king, George III.
The first successful canal was the Bridgewater Canal in North West England, which opened in 1761 and was mostly funded by The 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.
By 1761 Reynolds could command a fee of 80 guineas for a full-length portrait ; in 1764 he was paid 100 guineas for a portrait of Lord Burghersh.
Rousseau's 800-page novel of sentiment, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, was published in 1761 to immense success.
In 1761, during the Seven Years ' War, the town was captured after three subsequent sieges by the Russian commander Peter Rumyantsev.
1761 and travel
In Europe, the guidebook was pioneered by Mariana Starke ( 1761 / 2-1838 ) whose 1824 guide to travel in France and Italy served as an essential companion for British travelers to the Continent in the early 19th century.
1761 and island
In 1761 the French ship Utile, carrying slaves from Madagascar to Mauritius, ran onto the reefs of the island.
In 1758 Maskelyne was admitted to the Royal Society, which in 1761 despatched him to the island of St. Helena to observe the transit of Venus.
* Dominica-The island was captured from the French in 1761.
He was commissioned as an Army surgeon in 1760 and was staff surgeon on expedition to the French island of Belle Île in 1761, then served in 1762 with the British Army in the expedition to Portugal.
On 29 March 1761, as the lieutenant colonel of 72nd Regiment of Foot he took part in the attack on Belle Île, an island of the coast of the northern part of the Bay of Biscay, off the coast of France.
An initial assault in April 1761 was repulsed with heavy loss but, reinforced, the British successfully captured the island in June.
The island was held by British troops from 1761, following its capture by an expedition sent out from England, to 1763, when it was returned to France in exchange for Minorca as part of the Peace of Paris.
Graves became Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland in 1761 and given the duty of convoying the seasonal fishing fleet from England to the island.
He finally managed to gain passage on a frigate that was bound for India's Coromandel Coast, and he sailed in March 1761 with the intention of observing the transit from the island of Pondicherry.
Shakbut's father, Dhiyab bin Isa, had sent a hunting party from Liwa in 1761 which tracked a gazelle to a brackish spring on the island.
Dhiyab bin Isa, leader of the Bani Yas tribal confederation, sent a hunting party from Liwa in 1761 which tracked a gazelle to a brackish spring on the island.
In 1761, Somes, a cooper by trade, brought his wife ( Hannah Herrick ) and family from Gloucester, Massachusetts to the island, along with James Richardson and Richardson's family.
1761 and Sumatra
However, their passage to Sumatra was delayed, and they landed instead at the Cape of Good Hope where the transit was observed on June 6, 1761.
1761 and observe
Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington set up an observatory in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, following a suggestion first made by Halley.
Bowdoin was instrumental in gaining support in the provincial assembly for an expedition to Newfoundland to observe the 1761 transit of Venus across the sun, and in the same year published a treatise suggesting improvements to the telescope.
Ingham discreetly sent two of his preachers, James Allen and William Batty, to Scotland to observe Glasite practices in 1761.
Additionally, he observed the transits of Mercury in 1740 and 1761 and journeyed to Newfoundland to observe a transit of Venus.
In 1761, John Winthrop, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, arranged the first American astronomical expedition to observe Venus's transit over the Sun.
1761 and Venus
Subsequent contributions to the Transactions contained his observations of the transits of Venus ( 1761 and 1769 ), on the tides at Saint Helena ( 1762 ), and on various astronomical phenomena at Saint Helena ( 1764 ) and at Barbados ( 1764 ).
Lomonosov was the first person to hypothesize the existence of an atmosphere on Venus based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 in a small observatory near his house in Petersburg.
They concluded that Lomonosov's telescope was fully adequate to the task of detecting the arc of light around Venus off the Sun's disc during ingress or egress if proper experimental techniques as described by Lomonosov in his 1761 paper are employed.
Diagrams from Mikhail Lomonosov's " The Appearance of Venus On The Sun, Observed At The St. Petersburg Imperial Academy Of Sciences On May 26, 1761 "
The diurnal parallax of the Sun was accurately measured during the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769, yielding a value of 9 ″ ( compared to the present 1976 value of 8. 794148 ″).
From a fresh discussion of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769 he deduced a solar parallax of 8. 57 arcsecond.
It was next mentioned by the French mathematician Alexandre Pingré, who travelled to Rodrigues in 1761 to view the transit of Venus.
* Publication of Edward Stone's The whole doctrine of parallaxes explained and illustrated by an arithmetical and geometrical construction of the transit of Venus over the sun, June 6th, 1761.
* Le Gentil's story is told in detail in Helen Sawyer Hogg, " Le Gentil and the Transits of Venus, 1761 and 1769 ", Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, vol.
File: Venus Black Drop effect. png | The black drop effect as depicted by Torbern Bergman in 1761.
* Experimental reconstruction of Lomonosov's discovery of Venusian atmosphere ( 1761 ) with antique refractors during the transit of Venus on June 5-6, 2012.
The researchers observed the " Lomonosov's arc " and other aureole effects due to Venus's atmosphere and concluded that Lomonosov's telescope was fully adequate to the task of detecting the arc of light around Venus off the Sun's disc during ingress or egress if proper experimental techniques as described by Lomonosov in his 1761 paper are employed.
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