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Titel: Chasing Venus
Zustand: New
EAN: 9780099538325
ISBN: 9780099538325
Verlag: Windmill Books
Produktart: Taschenbuch
Release date: 07/02/2013
Höhe: 198mm
Länge: 129mm
Breite: 26mm
Gewicht: 315g
Autor: Andrea Wulf
Sprache: Englisch
Subtitle: The Race to Measure the Heavens
ISBN-10: 0099538326
Description:

On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.

United by this momentous occasion, scientists from around the globe came together to answer the essential question: how can the universe be measured? In Chasing Venus Andrea Wulf paints a vivid portrait of the rivalries, triumphs and misfortunes that befell these men, along with their passion and determination to succeed. This extraordinary book tells their story and how one single event prompted the first international scientific collaboration.

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