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Article : Wall Street Journal "A Celestial Event That Sparked A Revolution"

Here is an article that I wrote for the Wall Street Journal about the transits of Venus in the 18th century and the astronomers who raced across the world in order to calculate the distance between earth and sun.

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Posted on 04/20/2012 in Chasing Venus, Journalism |

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ANDREA WULF

  • I trained as a design historian
    at the Royal College of Art in London and I'm a full-time writer. I’m the author of four books and have written for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and LA Times. I also write book reviews New York Times Sunday Book Review. My latest book is "Chasing Venus". I'm the 2013 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence. Click here for a short bio. Contact: andrea (at) andreawulf.comAndrea2010 squar low 

     

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