Chasing Venus

The Race to Measure the Heavens

Andrea Wulf (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2013
Windmill Books (Verlag)
978-0-09-953832-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London and is the author of several books, including The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (Winner of the 2015 Costa Biography Award and the 2016 Royal Society Science Book Prize) and Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self. A member of PEN American Center and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is currently a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Gewicht	306 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-09-953832-6 / 0099538326
ISBN-13	978-0-09-953832-5 / 9780099538325
Zustand	Neuware