Jessica Ratcliff

The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981855
• Artikelnr.: 45687503

Autorenporträt

Jessica Ratcliff is assistant professor of science and technological studies at Cornell University.