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1761 in science
The year 1761 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
==Astronomy==
* June 6 – The first transit of Venus since Edmond Halley suggested that its observation could determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Joseph-Nicolas Delisle set up a 62-station network for observing the transit. Those taking part included:
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* Nathaniel Bliss at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
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* César Cassini de Thury in Vienna
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* Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche in Tobolsk, Siberia
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* Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason in Cape Town, South Africa (they had originally planned to go to Bengcoolen, Sumatra)
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* Maximilian Hell in Vardø, Norway
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* Joseph de Lalande in Paris
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* Tobias Mayer in Göttingen
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* Nevil Maskelyne in St Helena
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* Alexandre Pingré on Rodrigues Island
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* John Winthrop in St. John's, Newfoundland
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* Mikhail Lomonosov, who finds the first evidence that the planet has an atmosphere
Guillaume Le Gentil, who had hoped to observe from Pondicherry in India, was prevented from doing so due to the Seven Years' War and Ruđer Bošković arrives late in Constantinople.
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