Warren de la Rue

Warren de la Rue's 1868 chart of the path of Venus in 1882

Predicted path of Venus on the Sun during the 1882 ToV in relation to the field of the Kew photoheliograph, published by the pioneering astrophotographer Warren de la Rue in 1868.  This copy is from the relatively rare Correspondence Between the Treasury, the Admiralty, and the Astronomer Royal, Respecting the Arrangements to be Made for Observing the Transits of Venus, Which Will Take Place in the Years 1874 and 1882 printed in the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers XLVII (1869).

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Mars 1856

These sketches, undated, were formerly attributed in our Archives to Andrew Elvins. They are in fact lithographs of observational skecthes by Warren De la Rue from 1856 April 20, as can be found in Camille Flammarion, La Planète Mars et ses conditions d'habitabilité, synthèse générale de toutes les observations..., vol. I (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1892), p. 128, fig. 76, and p. 129, fig. 77, among other places.

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