Transit of Venus 1874 Medal .
I
recently came across this. In 1874 the French Academy of
Sciences presented a medal to those Frenchmen who were engaged in
observing the transit of Venus in 1874.
Does
anyone know if there was an equivalent medal struck for British
astronomers?
On
the medal which relates to mythology it describes ‘Venus in the
simple costume of the goddesses, passes before the car of Apollo, the
god of the Sun, while science observes the phenomenon on the Earth
and records the results’.
The
legend is the composition of a member of the Academy of Inscriptions.
On
the reverse of the medal is the following inscription
INSTITUT
DE FRANCE
ACADEMIE
DES SCIENCES
PASSAGE
DE VENUS SUR LE SOLEIL
8-9
DECEMBER 1874
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| Medal designed by M. Alphee Dubois |
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