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jonwood's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
slow-paced
3.0
A well told history of the international effort of scientists in the 1700s to determine the size of the universe by observing Venus crossing the sun. The book covers many teams that went into this international effort, informing about the state of the science across many European countries and the American colonies. While this covered many aspects and personalities of the historical science community I never heard before (and going into anecdotes about various setbacks experienced by the scientists), I didn't find the prose all that gripping and the historical figures never came alive for me as characters, they were hard for me to keep track of at times. Also, this book is purely historical, it does not go into details about how the calculation is done or explain the actual process, don't read this expecting to learn about the actual mathematics.
Content Warnings
Minor: Death and War
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