Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

by Andrea Wulf

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307700178
• ISBN13: 9780307700179
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.5"