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The downloaded PDF for any Review in this section contains all the Reviews in this section. Craig F. Bohren, Editor Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802; mailing address: P.O. Box 887, Boalsburg, PA 16827; bohren@meteo.psu.edu Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens. Andrea Wulf. 336 pp. Knopf, New York, 2012. Price: $26.95 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-307-70017-9. (Steve Ruskin, Reviewer.) On June 8, 2004, I observed the transit of Venus from a small village outside of Munich, Germany. On June 5, 2012, I again watched Venus cross the face of the sun, this time from the back deck of my Colorado home. I made both of my transit observations in casual comfort: cold drinks nearby, music playing on my iPod, and binoculars, telescopes, and protective eyewear at the ready. It was observational luxury. But after finishing Andrea Wulf's Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens, just one thought occurred to me as I compared my twenty-first century transit of Venus observations with those of the eighteenth century: man, we have it easy. In the months prior to the 2004 and 2012 transits, I had not crossed a searing desert or arctic waste, I was not shot at

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The American Journal of Physics – American Association of Physics Teachers

Published: Jan 1, 2013

Keywords: bibliographies; celestial mechanics; teaching; transits; Venus

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Born	1972 New Delhi, India
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Non-fiction
Notable works	The Brother Gardeners, This Other Eden, Founding Gardeners, Chasing Venus, The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt's New World

Andrea Wulf (born 1972) is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.

Biography[edit]

Wulf was born in New Delhi, India, a child of German developmental aid workers, and spent the first five years of her life there then grew up in Hamburg.^[1] She studied first at the University of Lüneburg, and then design history at The Royal College of Art, London.

Wulf is a public speaker, delivering lectures in the UK and USA. She was the guest speaker at the Kitt Peak National Observatory.

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Her book The Brother Gardeners was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize^[2] and received a CBHL Annual Literature Award in 2010.^[3] In 2016, she won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize^[4]^[5] and the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award for her book The Invention of Nature.^[6]

Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens[edit]

Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens (2012) is a non-fiction book about expeditions of scientists who set off around the world in 1761 and 1769 to collect data relating to the transit of Venus and thereby to measure and understand better the universe. The narrative style provides glimpses into the personalities of those involved, their aims and obsessions, their failures and discoveries, and provides the historic context of the period in the 18th century when modern-day scientifically accurate mapping and international scientific collaboration began. Dramatis personae include Joseph Banks, Catherine the Great, Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche, James Cook, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Jeremiah Dixon, Benjamin Franklin, Edmond Halley, Maximilian Hell, Guillaume Le Gentil, Mikhail Lomonosov, Nevil Maskelyne, Charles Mason, Alexandre-Gui Pingré, David Rittenhouse, James Short, Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, John Winthrop, and members of the American Philosophical Society, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Russian Academy of Sciences.^[7]

The Invention of Nature[edit]

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (2015) is a nonfiction book about the Prussian naturalist, explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt. Wulf makes the case that Humboldt synthesized knowledge from many different fields to form a vision of nature as one interconnected system, that would go on to influence scientists, activists and the public.

Books[edit]

This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History Little, Brown, 2005, ISBN9780316725804^[8]
The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession Vintage Books, 2008, ISBN9780307454751^[9]^[10]
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation Knopf Doubleday, 2012, ISBN9780307390684^[11]
Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens (2012) ISBN9780307958617^[12]
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, Knopf, 2015, ISBN9781848548985
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt Pantheon, 2019 (co-authored with Lillian Melcher - illustrator) ISBN9781524747374

References[edit]

^'A conversation with 'Founding Gardeners' author Andrea Wulf'. Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
^'Samuel Johnson Prize Latest News'. 13 February 2012. Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
^'2010 Annual CBHL Literature Award [Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries]'. 8 July 2010. Archived from the original on 8 July 2010. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
^Flood, Alison (19 September 2016). 'Alexander von Humboldt biography wins Royal Society science book prize'. The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-08 – via www.theguardian.com.
^'The Royal Society announces the winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016'. royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
^'2016 medals and awards recipients announced'. Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
^A. Wulf. Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens. NY: Knopf, 2012
^Sinclair, Jill (26 November 2005). 'Review: The New Garden Paradise and This Other Eden'. The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-08 – via www.theguardian.com.
^Cocker, Mark (9 May 2008). 'Review: The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf'. The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-08 – via www.theguardian.com.

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