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![Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMWk2Nmc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--f6c9c3ed127e02d42b4221d79ec0131f26350016/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Chasing%20Venus-%20The%20Race%20to%20Measure%20the%20Heavens.jpg)
336 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780307744609
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 26 February 2013
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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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![Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMWk2Nmc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--f6c9c3ed127e02d42b4221d79ec0131f26350016/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Chasing%20Venus-%20The%20Race%20to%20Measure%20the%20Heavens.jpg)
336 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780307744609
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 26 February 2013
Description
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...