TIL An astronomer travelled to India in 1760 to observed the transit of Venus. His ship blew, and he missed the date. He stayed in India for 8 years to try again, but the sky was too cloudy. When he returned home, he had been declared dead, his wife remarried, his estate plundered, and his job lost

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TIL An astronomer travelled to India in 1760 to observed the transit of Venus. His ship blew, and he missed the date. He stayed in India for 8 years to try again, but the sky was too cloudy. When he returned home, he had been declared dead, his wife remarried, his estate plundered, and his job lost

TIL An astronomer travelled to India in 1760 to observed the transit of Venus. His ship blew, and he missed the date. He stayed in India for 8 years to try again, but the sky was too cloudy. When he returned home, he had been declared dead, his wife remarried, his estate plundered, and his job lost https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil J_Chavez00 July 31, 2021 at 09:14AM

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TIL An astronomer travelled to India in 1760 to observed the transit of Venus. His ship blew, and he missed the date. He stayed in India for 8 years to try again, but the sky was too cloudy. When he returned home, he had been declared dead, his wife remarried, his estate plundered, and his job lost

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