Chasing Venus the race to measure the heavens
"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 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occa...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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