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

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

Andrea Wulf

336 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
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The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system.   On June ...

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