Venus at first internal contact with the Sun Size:Large: 7 x 5in parked outside a general store

parked outside a general store

Highgate Archway viaduct

Cars speed round a corner on the famous street circuit

Having just lost his wife's fortune

Venus at first internal contact with the Sun Size:Large: 7 x 5in parked outside a general storeView taken at Mageroya, Nordkapp, Norway, during the 1769 Transit of Venus. Inscribed 'The appearance of Venus on the Sun at Magger & near the 1st internal contact by Wiliam Bayley.' Published as plate 13 for the paper 'Astronomical observations, made at the North Cape, for the Royal Society', by William Bayly, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 59, 1769, pp. 262 272. William Bayly was employed as an assistant by Nevil Maskelyne at