Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens [Audiobook] download free by Andrea Wulf
- Listen audiobook: Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
- Author: Andrea Wulf
- Release date: 2013/2/6
- Publisher: CORNERSTONE
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780099538325
- Rating: 7.38 of 10
- Votes: 350
- Review by: Katie Bergman
- Review rating: 9.03 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/7
- Duration: 4H12M49S in 256 kbps (67.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, Musepack, MP3, WAV, WMA (compression LZMA, ARC, ZIP, TGZ, ALZ, CBC, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 336
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M40S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Popular Astronomy & Space
- Download servers: ZeoSpace, Uploaded, Torrent, FileNurse, FileServe, Google Drive, 4Shared, Hotfile, FileFactory, FreakShare. Compressed in LZMA, ARC, ZIP, TGZ, ALZ, CBC, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.60 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x25mm
- Weight: 302g
- Printed by: Windmill Books
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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