Author : Neal Romanek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945462396
Skies of Venus
Neal Romanek
Skies Of Venus
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Skies of Venus
NEAL. ROMANEK
Author : NEAL. ROMANEK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194546237X
Skies of Venus by NEAL. ROMANEK Pdf
Chasing Venus
Andrea Wulf
Author : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307958617
Chasing Venus by Andrea Wulf Pdf
A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. • From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system—but only if they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.
Carson of Venus
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338034786
Carson of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs Pdf
"Carson of Venus'' is a science fantasy novel by acclaimed author Edgar Rice Burroughs. It tells the story of Carson Napier's journey to the extraordinary world of Venus, where thrilling spy intrigue and wartime suspense await. Set against the backdrop of a politically charged landscape, Carson faces the cunning Zani faction, a clever satire of Nazi Germany, while encountering the enigmatic character Muso, reminiscent of Benito Mussolini.
The Sky People
S.M. Stirling
Author : S.M. Stirling
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429987479
The Sky People by S.M. Stirling Pdf
Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life—even human life. At that point, the "Space Race" became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world. Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers. But there are flies in this ointment – and not only the Venusian dragonflies, with their yard-wide wings. The biologists studying Venus's life are puzzled by the way it not only resembles that on Earth, but is virtually identical to it. The EastBloc has its own base at Cosmograd, in the highlands to the south, and relations are frosty. And attractive young geologist Cynthia Whitlock seems impervious to Marc's Cajun charm. Meanwhile, at the western end of the continent, Teesa of the Cloud Mountain People leads her tribe in a conflict with the Neanderthal-like beastmen who have seized her folk's sacred caves. Then an EastBloc shuttle crashes nearby, and the beastmen acquire new knowledge... and AK47's. Jamestown sends its long-range blimp to rescue the downed EastBloc cosmonauts, little suspecting that the answer to the jungle planet's mysteries may lie there, among tribal conflicts and traces of a power that made Earth's vaunted science seem as primitive as the tribesfolk's blowguns. As if that weren't enough, there's an enemy agent on board the airship... Extravagant and effervescent, The Sky People is alternate-history SF adventure at its best. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Pirates of Venus
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612105123
Pirates of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs Pdf
Carson Napier is headed to Mars, but a navagation problem lands him on Venus instead! Where he discovers that this supposidly uninhabited world is filled with people and danger!
Brightest in the Sky
Nancy Loewen
Author : Nancy Loewen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781543595840
Brightest in the Sky by Nancy Loewen Pdf
Not only is Venus the hottest planet in the solar system, it's also one of the brightest, most enchanting objects in the sky. Explore Earth's closest neighbor in this book about Venus.
Venus on the Half-Shell
Philip José Farmer
Author : Philip José Farmer
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504094528
Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer Pdf
Disaster sends a man across the universe in search of answers to life’s big questions in this humorous classic adventure by a Science Fiction Grand Master. When a massive flood wipes out Earth and spoils his date, lone survivor Simon Wagstaff finds refuge in an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. Accompanied by three new companions—a dog, an owl, and a beautiful robot—and his electric banjo, Wagstaff sets off on an extraterrestrial adventure. He travels from planet to planet, seeking the definitive answer to the ultimate question: Why are we created if only to suffer and die? Of course, after he drinks an elixir granting him eternal life, the real question is what to do for the rest of eternity after he answers his first question . . . “Lively and inventive and goes by faster than a holiday weekend.” —The Washington Post “A comedy of sexual mores, an investigative search for Love, a lampoon of people who require answers to imponderable questions.” —Science Fiction Review “Not only a science-fiction epic of the most incredible proportions, but it is also a satiric-fantasy, a clever parody of its own genre.” —The Daily Eastern News
Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus
Lennart Bengtsson,Roger-Maurice Bonnet,David Grinspoon,Symeon Koumoutsaris,Sebastien Lebonnois,Dmitri Titov
Author : Lennart Bengtsson,Roger-Maurice Bonnet,David Grinspoon,Symeon Koumoutsaris,Sebastien Lebonnois,Dmitri Titov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461450641
Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus by Lennart Bengtsson,Roger-Maurice Bonnet,David Grinspoon,Symeon Koumoutsaris,Sebastien Lebonnois,Dmitri Titov Pdf
ESA’s Venus Express Mission has monitored Venus since April 2006, and scientists worldwide have used mathematical models to investigate its atmosphere and model its circulation. This book summarizes recent work to explore and understand the climate of the planet through a research program under the auspices of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland. Some of the unique elements that are discussed are the anomalies with Venus’ surface temperature (the huge greenhouse effect causes the surface to rise to 460°C, without which would plummet as low as -40°C), its unusual lack of solar radiation (despite being closer to the Sun, Venus receives less solar radiation than Earth due to its dense cloud cover reflecting 76% back) and the juxtaposition of its atmosphere and planetary rotation (wind speeds can climb up to 200 m/s, much faster than Venus’ sidereal day of 243 Earth-days).
The Orphan Boy
Tololwa M. Mollel
Author : Tololwa M. Mollel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395720796
The Orphan Boy by Tololwa M. Mollel Pdf
Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers.
Space Cat Visits Venus
Ruthven Todd
Author : Ruthven Todd
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486822730
Space Cat Visits Venus by Ruthven Todd Pdf
"Recommended." — Library Journal. Flyball is back, and this whimsically illustrated hardcover volume recounts the intrepid cat's voyage to Venus, where he and his pilot friend encounter strange plants that can communicate without speaking.
Escape on Venus
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781537803555
Escape on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs Pdf
Escape on Venus is the fourth book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It consists of four interconnected stories published in Fantasic Adventures between 1941 and 1942: "Slaves of the Fishmen," "Goddess of Fire," "The Living Dead," and "War on Venus."
Venus, a Longer View
Guy Ottewell
Author : Guy Ottewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0934546819
Venus, a Longer View by Guy Ottewell Pdf
The planet Venus: orbit, appearance in our skies, the famous eight-year cycle, transits of the Sun, passages of the Pleiades, visits by spacecraft, amazing physical nature. And the goddess Venus, in Sumerian, Syrian, Greek, Roman myth. Very abundant illustrations: charts and sky scenes for years ahead, diagrams, paintings, sculptures. And abundant selections from the poetry and lore of Love.
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143135654
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard Pdf
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.
Many Skies
Arthur Upgren
Author : Arthur Upgren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813553566
Many Skies by Arthur Upgren Pdf
What if Earth had several moons or massive rings like Saturn? What if the Sun were but one star in a double-star or triple-star system? What if Earth were the only planet circling the Sun? These and other imaginative scenarios are the subject of Arthur Upgren's inventive book Many Skies: Alternative Histories of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Stars. Although the night sky as we know it seems eternal and inevitable, Upgren reminds us that, just as easily, it could have been very different. Had the solar sytem happened to be in the midst of a star cluster, we might have many more bright stars in the sky. Yet had it been located beyond the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, we might have no stars at all. If Venus or Mars had a moon as large as ours, we would be able to view it easily with the unaided eye. Given these or other alternative skies, what might Ptolemy or Copernicus have concluded about the center of the solar sytem and the Sun? This book not only examines the changes in science that these alternative solar, stellar, and galactic arrangements would have brought, it also explores the different theologies, astrologies, and methods of tracking time that would have developed to reflect them. Our perception of our surroundings, the number of gods we worship, the symbols we use in art and literature, even the way we form nations and empires are all closely tied to our particular (and accidental) placement in the universe. Many Skies, however, is not merely a fanciful play on what might have been. Upgren also explores the actual ways that human interferences such as light pollution are changing the night sky. Our atmosphere, he warns, will appear very different if we have belt of debris circling the globe and blotting out the stars, as will happen if advertisers one day pollute space with brilliant satellites displaying their products. From fanciful to foreboding, the scenarios in Many Skies will both delight and inspire reflection, reminding us that ours is but one of many worldviews based on our experience of a universe that is as much a product of accident as it is of intention.