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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...
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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...