Chasing Venus
Engels
352
18,95
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?

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  • : Andrea Wulf
  • : Cornerstone
  • : 9780099538325
  • : Engels
  • : Paperback
  • : 352
  • : februari 2013
  • : 308
  • : 201 x 135 x 25 mm.
  • : Ca. 1760 tot ca. 1769; Populairwetenschappelijke sterrenkunde en ruimte