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Chasing Venus

2012-05-01 Science
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Book Synopsis Chasing Venus by : Andrea Wulf

Download or read book Chasing Venus written by Andrea Wulf. This book was released on 2012-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. • From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system—but only if they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.

Chasing Venus

2013-02-26 Science
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Release : 2013-02-26
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Book Synopsis Chasing Venus by : Andrea Wulf

Download or read book Chasing Venus written by Andrea Wulf. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the personalities of the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system—but only if they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.

Chasing Venus

2007
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Book Synopsis Chasing Venus by : Nell Lang

Download or read book Chasing Venus written by Nell Lang. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Author Nell Lang, through her broad and eclectic book Ancient Messages, has shown us an inner wisdom and intellectual boldness blended with her passion for gnosis - divine knowledge. Her insight and unquenchable thirst to explore every known and unknown crevice for this hidden knowledge, her sense of adventure, focus, imagination, and perseverance are all part of her makeup. Nell has gone beyond her own self-declared borders and has expanded her senses, her intellect and her emotional and spiritual life with her new Novel, Chasing Venus. Chasing Venus is the spontaneous adventures of a young researcher who uncovers an archaic manuscript in an estate that is being torn down. The manuscript is filled with secrets veiled by other secrets of the mystical wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus. Everything is mind resonates though her thoughts as she begins to understand the power of the manuscript and the ancient wisdom that shows her how she can have anything, or anyone she desires by co-creating them in her mind. An enthusiast of philosophy, Egyptology, languages, ancient writings, art, history, and civilization, Lang finds inspiration from a wide variety of sources that cross the millennia. She is heavily influenced by Paul Christian?s The History and Practice of Magic, Sir James Frazer?s The Golden Bough, and the mystical wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus in Corpus Hermeticum. She continues to be true to her love of the mysteries of the Universe. In Ancient Messages, author Nell Lang heeds this call by returning to the writings and beliefs of old to find enlightenment and guidance for living in the modern world. She also seeks to ?bring to light the First and true ancient religion? handed to Plato from Hermetic philosophers.

Chasing New Horizons

2018-05-01 Science
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Release : 2018-05-01
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Book Synopsis Chasing New Horizons by : Alan Stern

Download or read book Chasing New Horizons written by Alan Stern. This book was released on 2018-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.

Chasing Echoes

2014-12-13
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Book Synopsis Chasing Echoes by : Jodi Perkins

Download or read book Chasing Echoes written by Jodi Perkins. This book was released on 2014-12-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topaz Aevos can make things fall with a single glance. Of all the random and bizarre powers that she and her three sisters were born with, hers is clearly the most useless. That is, until New Year’s Eve. When high school senior Stryder Black executes a cruel joke, Taz uses her powers, and all hell breaks loose. Stryder’s ill-fated prank lands him straight into a curse—one meant to teach him a lesson. Desperate for help, Stryder unwittingly drags Taz into the curse with him. Now both are forced to relive the same fragment of their lives over and over. But something goes deadly wrong. Not only is their loop mysteriously shrinking, Taz learns that Stryder is harboring a dark secret. Is his murky past the key to helping them escape…or will their time run out?

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