The Transits of Venus by Sheehan, William

The Transits of Venus (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781633889491)

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The Transits of Venus by Sheehan, William

The Transits of Venus

$21.95
The Transits of Venus by Sheehan, William

The Transits of Venus

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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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: 1633889491
ISBN-13: 9781633889491
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2024
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
By William Sheehan
By William Sheehan
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William Sheehan is the author or coauthor of a number of widely acclaimed books on astronomy, including Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet (with Stephen James O'Meara), The Immortal Fire Within (a biography of Edward Emerson Barnard), The Planet Mars, and Epic Moon (with Thomas Dobbins). The author of over a hundred popular articles on astronomy, he is a contributing editor to Sky & Telescope, a frequent contributor to Mercury, and a 2001 fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the "structure and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy."

John Westfall is a professor of geography at San Francisco State University, the recipient of the Walter Haas Observing Award from the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, and the author of the Atlas of the Lunar Terminator.

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