Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

Andrea Wulf

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

Andrea Wulf

352 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
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On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. United by this momentous occasion, scientists from around the gl...

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