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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
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Wulf is a public speaker, delivering lectures in the UK and USA. She was the guest speaker at the
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
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The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession
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This article is about the historian Andrea Wulf. For the activist Andrea Wolf, see
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A. Wulf. Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens. NY: Knopf, 2012
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
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This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History
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accurate mapping and international scientific collaboration began.
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt's New World
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Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize
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Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens
Andrea Wolf
Andrea Wulf at Frankfurt Book Fair, 2022
Frankfurt Book Fair
New Delhi
India
Non-fiction
Chasing Venus
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt's New World
New Delhi
India
Hamburg
The Royal College of Art
London
Kitt Peak National Observatory
Samuel Johnson Prize
CBHL Annual Literature Award
Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize
Royal Geographical Society
Ness Award
The Invention of Nature
Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction
transit of Venus
The Invention of Nature
Alexander von Humboldt
ISBN
9780316725804
ISBN
9780307454751
ISBN

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