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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

By Andrea Wulf
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By Andrea Wulf
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A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. • From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature.

On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus b...

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