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Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain [PDF ebook]

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In nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of ‚big science‘ in late-Victorian Britain.

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Format PDF ● Seiten 320 ● ISBN 9781851965564 ● Verlag Pickering & Chatto Publishers ● Erscheinungsjahr 2008 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2802876 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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