Le Passage de Vénus, nr.1
Le Passage de Vénus (tome 1)
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Collection : Aire Libre
| Hardcover album - 64 pages |
| ISBN 2-8001-2658-2 |
| EAN: 9782800126586 |
| France: 03/02/1999 - 15.50 EUR |
| Belgium: 03/02/1999 - 14.95 EUR |
| Zwitserland: 03/02/1999 - 23.20 CHF |
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Upon the orders of king Louis XV, the Earl of Bourgainville undertakes a voyage around the world that leads him in 1769 to the Île de France today better known as the Island of Mauritius to observe the sun passing in front of Venus. This exceptional phenomenon, which occurs, on average, only once a century, would enable scientists to determine the exact distance that separates the earth from the sun. This particular mission is not the only one that has been assigned to Bourgainville. Besides the astronomer Verron, the sailor is accompanied by Philibert Commerson, medic and naturalist in the services of the king, who is charged with thestudy of three kingdoms of nature: animal, vegetable and mineral. Commerson, in his forties, is dedicated, body and soul, to botany and ... to his assistant Jeanne Barré. Madly in love, the two will breach the forbidden, and Jeanne will embark on the "Étoile disguised as a man...
