The Transits of Venus (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781591021759)

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The Transits of Venus

$30.99

The Transits of Venus

$30.99
Format: Hardcover
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In this unique and fascinating history of science, 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.

Author: William Sheehan,John Westfall
ISBN-10: 1591021758
ISBN-13: 9781591021759
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2004
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.36w x 1.09d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2004 pg. 315
By William Sheehan
By William Sheehan
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William Sheehan (Willmar, MN) is the author of the widely acclaimed The Planet Mars and Worlds in the Sky, and coauthor (with Stephen James O'Meara) of Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet and (with Richard Baum) of In Search of Planet Vulcan. He is a frequent contributor to Astronomy and formerly a contributing editor to Sky & Telescope.

John Westfall (Antioch, CA) is professor of geography at San Francisco State University, the recipient of the Peggy Haas Service Award from the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, and the author of the Atlas of the Lunar Terminator.

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