Walnut Street Front

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David Rittenhouse erected a temporary observatory for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus on the Walnut Street front of the State house in Philadelphia.

Keywords

Pennsylvania, Venus, philadelphia, observatory, David Rittenhouse, Walnut Street

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Astronomy, Pennsylvania

Source

Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 7) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

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