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A spot on the Sun observed as early as 807 is believed by some experts to have been a transit of Mercury. The first observation of a transit of Mercury was on November 7, 1631 by Pierre Gassendi. Johannes Kepler had however predicted the occurrence of transits of Mercury and Venus some time before that.
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