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Jessica Ratcliff
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 ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9781851965564 ● Publisher Pickering & Chatto Publishers ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2802876 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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