The Transit of Venus
Title | The Transit of Venus PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Hazzard |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2021-03-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0143135651 |
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.
Chasing Venus
Title | Chasing Venus PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Wulf |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2012-05-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0307958612 |
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.
Observations of the Transit of Venus, 9 December, 1874
Title | Observations of the Transit of Venus, 9 December, 1874 PDF eBook |
Author | Sydney Observatory |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Astronomical observatories |
ISBN |
Transit of Venus
Title | Transit of Venus PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen Hunter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Canadian drama |
ISBN | 9781897289136 |
Obsessions and lifelong loves permeate Maureen Hunter's Transit of Venus as the eighteenth-century astronomer, Le Gentil, charts the heavens for Venus and the realm of his heart for his young fiancee. Le Gentil puts off marrying the young and wilful Celeste as he travels around the world in his attempts to plot the course of Venus across the sky, only to be undone at every turn by weather, war, and misfortune, and to find upon his final return a woman undone by his absence and ready to set her own course. Spanning eleven years in the lives of Le Gentil and Celeste, Hunter's play explores issues of faith, solitude, and the human spirit.
Transit of Venus
Title | Transit of Venus PDF eBook |
Author | Rowan Metcalfe |
Publisher | Huia Publishers |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781869690830 |
The story of the Bounty mutiny is well known. Fletcher Christian's mutineers set Captain William Bligh and others adrift in a ship's boat. Bligh sailed some 5000 kilometres to safety; the mutineers returned to Tahiti before making their way to isolated and uninhabited Pitcairn Island. But what of the Tahitian women who joined the Bounty at Tahiti? Their powerful and compelling story is told in Transit of Venus. Mauatua and her friends and relatives speak directly to us in beautiful and startlingly perceptive ways as they move away from their homeland and pass into the feverish intensity of drunkenness, betrayal and murder that mark the early years on Pitcairn. In so doing they assert their place in a story that has fascinated readers for generations.
The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain
Title | The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Ratcliff |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-09-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0822981858 |
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.
Transit of Venus
Title | Transit of Venus PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Lomb |
Publisher | The Experiment |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2012-04-03 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1615190554 |
Traces the impact on astronomy and science of the six times that the planet Venus has passed in front of the Sun since the discovery of the telescope in the seventeenth century, and discusses the 2012 transit, the last in this century.