A review by mkmoore00
The Day the World Discovered the Sun: An Extraordinary Story of Scientific Adventure and the Race to Track the Transit of Venus by Mark Anderson

3.0

 I think Anderson was too focused on the scientific element of this book to make a necessarily enjoyable reading experience. There were far too many pages about finding a way to measure the position of a ship at sea. It was confusing and a total distraction from the main storyline; a few pages would've been fine. This also wasn't the most accessible book for people unfamiliar with astronomy. It would've been easy to add in a few sentences of explanation when a new concept was introduced. Starting with the 1769 transit and then going back to the 1761 transit was also a bit confusing.