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An 18th-century observatory tent
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An 18th-century observatory tent

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James Cook was sent to the Pacific to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti. (The passage of Venus across the face of the sun could be used to calculate distances between the sun, Venus and the earth.) It was only after Cook had made these observations, from tents like this one, that he sailed...
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Society Islands / Tōtaiete mā
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