Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens AUTH-123694 We 5 kids earned a

We 5 kids earned a real reputation for "dirty money"

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ISBN10: 0071743855

Heidi and Rolland Baker

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens AUTH-123694 We 5 kids earned aOn 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,