Letters relating to the transit of Mercury over the sun, which is to happen May 6, 1753.
Subtitle: Sir, What put me upon giving you the trouble of this, was, the sight which a few days ago I had of some letters from the Royal Academy of Sciences, at Paris, with directions for observing in Canada, the end of a transit of Mercury over the sun ..
Contributors: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; L'Isle, Joseph Nicholas de, 1688-1768.; Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.; La Gallissonnie  re, Roland-Michel Barrin, marquis de, 1693-1756.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 7038.
Publisher: Printed by Benjamin Franklin
Published: 1753
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Astronomy -- Observations.; Mercury (Planet) -- Transit -- 1753.
Notes: A letter from James Alexander to Benjamin Franklin, accompanied by translations of letters from the Marquis de la Gallissonnie  re and a memorial drawn up by Joseph-Nicholaus Delisle. Cf. Miller.

Title from caption title and first lines of text.

Erroneously attributed to Professor John Winthrop of Harvard by Ford.

Imprint supplied by Miller. Mistakenly described as a Boston imprint by Evans and Ford.

Signatures: [A]℗ø.

Evans 7038.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 983.

Miller, C.W.  Franklin, 574.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 7038)