[PDF] Chasing Venus eBook

Author : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307744604

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A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the personalities of 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. 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 they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.

Author : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307958612

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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 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 they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.

Author : Nell Lang
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2007
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ISBN : 9780972242011

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In 2004, Author Nell Lang, through her broad and eclectic book Ancient Messages, has shown us an inner wisdom and intellectual boldness blended with her passion for gnosis - divine knowledge. Her insight and unquenchable thirst to explore every known and unknown crevice for this hidden knowledge, her sense of adventure, focus, imagination, and perseverance are all part of her makeup. Nell has gone beyond her own self-declared borders and has expanded her senses, her intellect and her emotional and spiritual life with her new Novel, Chasing Venus. Chasing Venus is the spontaneous adventures of a young researcher who uncovers an archaic manuscript in an estate that is being torn down. The manuscript is filled with secrets veiled by other secrets of the mystical wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus. Everything is mind resonates though her thoughts as she begins to understand the power of the manuscript and the ancient wisdom that shows her how she can have anything, or anyone she desires by co-creating them in her mind. An enthusiast of philosophy, Egyptology, languages, ancient writings, art, history, and civilization, Lang finds inspiration from a wide variety of sources that cross the millennia. She is heavily influenced by Paul Christian?s The History and Practice of Magic, Sir James Frazer?s The Golden Bough, and the mystical wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus in Corpus Hermeticum. She continues to be true to her love of the mysteries of the Universe. In Ancient Messages, author Nell Lang heeds this call by returning to the writings and beliefs of old to find enlightenment and guidance for living in the modern world. She also seeks to ?bring to light the First and true ancient religion? handed to Plato from Hermetic philosophers.

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Page : pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Astronomy
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Online exhibition that accompanies a gallery exhibition on the history of the observing of the transit of Venus across the sun. "Chasing Venus" tells the story of astronomers' pursuit of this phenomenon, through rare books and articles written on the subject over the last four centuries. The exhibit also marks the sixth observed transit of Venus, in June 2004.

Author : Donald M. Hunten
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0816546584

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No serious astronomical library can be complete without it.—Journal of the British Astronomical Association "The book contains the results of the exploration of Venus by spacecraft during the period 1962-1978. . . . The book represents an excellent review of the principal results of Venus in the period covered."—Bulletin of the Astronomical Institute of Czechoslovakia "A wealth of new information."—Science "Strongly recommended."—Science Books & Films

Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2010-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1615925473

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In this unique and fascinating history of science, acclaimed popular science writer Sheehan and award-winning geographer Westfall take readers back through the centuries to chronicle the intrepid explorations of scientists and adventurers who studied the transits of Venus in the quest for scientific understanding. Maps & tables.

Author : Paul Fleisher
Publisher : LernerClassroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761349928

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Describes the planet's characteristics, discussing its position, size, composition, and exploration.

Author : Ken Lamberton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0816501467

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It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. In Chasing Arizona, Lamberton takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joyride across Arizona during its centennial, racking up more than two hundred points of interest along the way. Lamberton chases the four corners of Arizona, attempts every county, every reservation, and every national monument and state park, from the smallest community to the largest city. He drives his Kia Rio through the longest tunnels and across the highest suspension bridges, hikes the hottest deserts, and climbs the tallest mountain, all while visiting the people, places, and treasures that make Arizona great. In the vivid, lyrical, often humorous prose the author is known for, each destination weaves together stories of history, nature, and people, along with entertaining side adventures and excursions. Maps and forty-four of the author’s detailed pencil drawings illustrate the journey. Chasing Arizona is unlike any book of its kind. It is an adventure story, a tale of Arizona, a road-warrior narrative. It is a quest to see and experience as much of Arizona as possible. Through intimate portrayals of people and place, readers deeply experience the Grand Canyon State and at the same time celebrate what makes Arizona a wonderful place to visit and live.