#  Transits of Venus (2004) 

 



**Presentation Date:** Tuesday, June 8, 2004

**Location:** Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

 ![transit](/sites/g/files/omnuum1416/files/2024-07/transit.jpg)

 

Part of the *Festival of the Transit of Venus* organized at the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments on the occasion of the Transit of Venus on June 8, 2004, this exhibit examined the impact of pre-Revolutionary politics on Harvard's expeditions to observe the Transit of Venus in 1761 and 1769. On display were instruments selected by Benjamin Franklin for professor John Winthrop's observations.



 



 

 See also:- [ 2000s ](/exhibitions-decade/2000s)
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