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THE older text-books indicate a transit of Mercury on May 11, 1937. Thus, Rev. S. J. Johnson, in “Eclipses and Transits in Future Years” (1889), p. 6, says: “Mercury on the sun from 8 h. morn, to 9.2 h. approximately.” On the other hand, Prof. S. Newcomb, in his paper on transits of Mercury in vol. 1 of Papers of the American Ephemeris, describes the event as a near approach. It does not appear, however, that this statement was the result of accurate computation; it was merely an inference from the large diagram of transits contained in the paper.
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CROMMELIN, A. Partial Transit of Mercury in May 1937. Nature 120, 916–917 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120916b0
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