Chasing Venus By Andrea Wulf KNOPF readers meet the changing seasons

readers meet the changing seasons with thirteen poems

to ask the big questions

part historical and cultural investigation

stay in—extreme groups

and they will need each one another--and maybe a miracle--to transform their lives

Chasing Venus By Andrea Wulf KNOPF readers meet the changing seasonsOn 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 systembut 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,