Repro ID: H5528
Title: A replica of the tent used on the Transit of Venus expedition of 1769.
Description: A replica of the tent used as a portable observatory on James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific, a voyage that included the observation of the Transit of Venus of 1769 from Tahiti. This replica was made for a museum exhibition in 1969. It is shown here with apparatus similar to what James Cook and his astronomer Charles Green might have used to view the transit. Green was a former employee of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Creator: Parker
Date: 1969
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London
