MARC details
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02541nam a2200433 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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65537f84215b3 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240909204332.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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231006s2017 gw a 000 0 ger d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9783328102281 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
3328102280 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1401983507 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NYHRS |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
NYHRS |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
ger |
| Language code of original |
eng |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
HRSA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Wulf, Andrea, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2006000902 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3268 |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Chasing Venus. |
| Language of a work |
German |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Die Vermessung des Himmels : |
| Remainder of title |
vom grössten Wissenschaftsabenteuer des 18. Jahrhunderts / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Andrea Wulf ; aus dem Englischen übertragen von Hainer Kober. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
München : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Penguin Verlag, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
412 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
19 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
still image |
| Content type code |
sti |
| Source |
rdacontent |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
| Content type code |
txt |
| Source |
rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Media type code |
n |
| Source |
rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Carrier type code |
nc |
| Source |
rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Translation of: Chasing Venus : the race to measure the heavens. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-391) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
In German, translated from the English. |
| 562 ## - COPY AND VERSION IDENTIFICATION NOTE |
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| Materials specified |
31560000078333 |
| Copy identification |
23220 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Geodetic astronomy |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
18th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Astronomy. |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009003 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
5754 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Venus (Planet) |
| General subdivision |
Transit. |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142778 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
7525 |
| 653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Astronomy |
| 653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Time |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kober, Hainer, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1942- |
| Relator term |
translator. |
| Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009004293 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
7205 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |
| 994 ## - |
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C0 |
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NYHRS |