Manzanillo, Cuba. The Spanish scientific commission observing the passage of Venus through the solar disk, on 6 December 1882, under the presidency of the director of Royal Institute and Observatory of the Spanish Navy (Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada de San Fernando, Spain), Mr. Cecilio Pujazon (1833-1891). A provisional observatory was installed in the courtyard of the military hospital, at the Plaza del Fuerte, by the sea. This observatory consisted of a hut without roof, in which were placed three equatorial telescopes, one chronograph and three chronometers. Drawing by Juan Comba. Engraving by Rico. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.
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Manzanillo, Cuba. The Spanish scientific commission observing the passage of Venus through the solar disk, on 6 December 1882, under the presidency of the director of Royal Institute and Observatory of the Spanish Navy (Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada de San Fernando, Spain), Mr. Cecilio Pujazon (1833-1891). A provisional observatory was installed in the courtyard of the military hospital, at the Plaza del Fuerte, by the sea. This observatory consisted of a hut without roof, in which were placed three equatorial telescopes, one chronograph and three chronometers. Drawing by Juan Comba. Engraving by Rico. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.

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1883

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