6 June 1761
Indian Ocean Transit Observations
Contributes to international efforts to determine the astronomical unit.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Indian Ocean in France. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Contributes to international efforts to determine the astronomical unit.
Attempts to observe the Venus transit during an extended scientific voyage.
Provenance
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