Six Months in Ascension - An Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition - David Gill - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 2010 -
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
Six Months in Ascension (1878) contains Isobel Gill's account of the 1877 expedition to the Island of Ascension, undertaken to measure the sun's distance from the earth. It provides rare insights into the personal and behind-the-scenes side of the scientific expedition and into gender roles in Victorian society.
