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acclaimed popular science writer William Sheehan - who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Science Writing - and award-winning geographer John Westfall take us 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
but you still get a sense of the history that happened there
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'You're not in a hurry today
Uncle Rosemary A. Olender acclaimed popular science writer WilliamIn the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802 1876) to date, Purdue's great great grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source materials including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories the author examines Purdue's beginning among illiterate,
