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

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

Andrea Wulf

336 pages paperback 2012

15 editions

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On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system--but only if the...

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