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...Tahiti with Captain Cook - the expedition ostensibly being to observe the 1769 [[T#transit|transit of Venus]]. His accounts of the voyage and the botany o ...stronomer was the discoverer of the "Crab Nebula" in Taurus, M1 (1731). In 1769 he observed the Transit of Venus from just along the road from King George

Maskelyne published in the ''Nautical Almanac'' for 1769 ''Instructions relative to the Observation of the ensuing Transit of Venus, ...eil pour les astronomes'' (t. i. 1771); his observations of the transit of 1769 were communicated to the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia in

...d was director of Brera Observatory. He led an expedition to California in 1769 to observe a transit of Venus. From 1773 to 1783 he worked in Paris.

In 1769 Dixon sailed to Norway with William Bayly [q.v.] in the Emerald to make obs

Mason was employed by the Royal Society during six months in 1769 on an astronomical mission at Cavan in Ireland. He observed the second tran

...Mason undertakes a second and final observation of the Transit of Venus in 1769 (the closing section of the book is called "Last Transit"), this time from

...ores that Sun is also a star; from the Transit of Venus data from 1761 and 1769, Lalande got a figure of 153 million kilometres (±1 million km), only 2.27

==1769==

Pontiac or Obwandiyag (c. 1720 – April 20, 1769), was the Ottawa tribe leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's R

[[1769|'''1769''']],

...stronomer was the discoverer of the "Crab Nebula" in Taurus, M1 (1731). In 1769 he observed the Transit of Venus from just along the road from King George

...al Observatory, was sent by the Royal Society to the North Cape for obs in 1769.