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Mercury Transit Timing
Halley's Mercury transit observations strengthen interest in using accurately timed planetary transits to refine measurements of the Solar System.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Saint Helena in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Halley's Mercury transit observations strengthen interest in using accurately timed planetary transits to refine measurements of the Solar System.
Halley observes a transit of Mercury from Saint Helena and carefully records the event for later astronomical analysis.
Provenance
These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and Saint Helena. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.
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