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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
Chasing Venus The Race to Measure the Heavens
Author: Andrea Wulf
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 they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307744609
ISBN-10: 0307744604
Publication Date: 2/26/2013
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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