The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington houses an eighteenth century Gregorian telescope manufactured by Heath and Wing of London which has a convoluted history reputedly involving James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks. Neither association can be verified, but we conclude that this instrument does indeed have a Cook Voyage pedigree, and was the telescope that Daniel Solander used to observe the 1769 transit of Venus from Fort Venus, Tahiti.
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