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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. United by this momentous occasion, scientists from around the globe came together to answer the essential question: how c ...Show more
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf
30.00 NZD
Category: History
'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads like a racy, intelligent novel, with a cast of unforgettable characters' SUNDAY TIMES'Magnificent Rebels is ...Show more
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
30.00 NZD
Category: History
One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds.Over the next forty years, Bartram would send hun ...Show more
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world--and in the process created modern environmentalism. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the ...Show more
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