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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens - Couverture souple

Wulf, Andrea

 
9780099538325: Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0099538326 ISBN 13 : 9780099538325
Editeur : Windmill Books, 2013

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the author of The Brother Gardeners (longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 and winner of the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award), The Founding Gardeners and the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History. She has written for The New York Times, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and many others. She lives in London.

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Éditeur
Windmill Books
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0099538326
ISBN 13 
9780099538325
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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