PUBLICATIONS | THE 1769 TRANSIT OF VENUS

The 1769 Transit of Venus, The Baja California Observations of Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche, Vicente de Doz, and Joaquín Velázques Cárdenas de León
edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.

Volume 46 of the Baja California Travels Series, Dawson's Book Shop
Published by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
185 pages, 23 illustrations, 2 tables, bibliography, index, 1982. Edition of 500.
Price $60.00 cloth cover (ISBN 0-938644-18-1)

Illustration Credit
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche. Courtesy of Harry Woolf

Account of the first scientific data collecting expedition on the California coast, with biographical notes on the observers--the French astronomer Chappe, two Spanish scientists, and the Mexican-born astronomer Velázquez.