If you would really like to get a feel about the history of the transit of Venus I recommend:
Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (Author) ISBN-10: 0312423209 ISBN-13: 978-0312423209
It is a quasi historical novel in which you will recognize a bunch of our mathematical and scientific heroes including the mechanical duck. I usually don't recommend novels to math people but you won't regret reading this one and you will put it down a little wiser than you were before.
Re: Transit of Venus
ReplyDeleteIf you would really like to get a feel about the history of the transit of Venus I recommend:
Mason & Dixon: A Novel by
Thomas Pynchon (Author)
ISBN-10: 0312423209
ISBN-13: 978-0312423209
It is a quasi historical novel in which you will recognize a bunch of our mathematical and scientific heroes including the mechanical duck. I usually don't recommend novels to math people but you won't regret reading this one and you will put it down a little wiser than you were before.