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.
- ISBN10 1615925473
- ISBN13 9781615925476
- Publish Date 1 December 2010 (first published 1 March 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prometheus Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 407
- Language English