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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by WULF, ANDREA - 2012

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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by WULF, ANDREA - 2012

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in original paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. xxvi; 304 pp.
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  • Edition First American Edition, First Printing
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  • ISBN 10 0307700178
  • ISBN 13 9780307700179
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 2012
  • Keywords BOOKOFCHAN

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New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group, 2012. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Maps. Audience: General/trade.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2012. xxvi, 304 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "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 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 transit could be viewed at the same time from many locations. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in remote corners of the world only to have their efforts thwarted by unpredictable weather… Read More
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First American Edition [stated], presumed First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Saskia Manners (Author photograph). xxvi, 304, [4] pages. Author's Note. Dramatis Personae. Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. List of Observers 1761. List of Observers 1769. Selected Bibliography, Sources, and Abbreviations. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, and a scuff. Andrea Wulf (born 1972) is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews. Her book The Brother Gardeners received a CBHL Annual Literature Award in 2010. In 2016, she won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize and the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award for her book The Invention of Nature. Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens is a non-fiction book about expeditions of scientists who set off around the world in 1761 and 1769 to collect data relating to the transit of Venus and thereby to measure and understand better the universe.… Read More
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