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The ‘Cook’ Gregorian Telescope in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (2016)

Orchiston, Wayne (Author)

Pages: 207-226

URI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-22566-1_7

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Telescopes Instruments, astronomical Venus 18th century New Zealand Solander, Daniel Charles Cook, James

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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