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  • ABACUS
  • ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES, PARIS
  • ACCADEMIA DEI LINCEI, ROME
  • AIR
  • AIR PUMP
  • ANTHROPOLOGY
  • ANTIQUE RETORT
  • ASTRONOMY
  • BELLOWS
  • BOTANY
  • CANDLE
  • CHEMISTRY
  • MAGNETIC COMPASS
  • DAGUERRE'S CAMERA
  • EARTH
  • FIRE
  • GALILEO'S TELESCOPE
  • GAS, LIQUID AND ICE
  • GEOLOGY
  • GEOLOGIC HAMMER AND CHISEL
  • INNER INSCRIPTION
  • KILN
  • LAVOISIER'S FLASK TO WEIGH AIR
  • LEVEL WITH PENDULUM BOB
  • ELECTRO-MAGNET
  • MATHEMATICS
  • MODERN MAN
  • MUSEUM OF ALEXANDRIA
  • NEWTON'S PRISM
  • OUTER INSCRIPTION
  • PEA PODS
  • PHAROS
  • PHYSICS
  • PLANET & STARS
  • EARTH (B)
  • JUPITER
  • MARS
  • MERCURY
  • NEPTUNE
  • SATURN
  • URANUS
  • VENUS
  • PLOWSHARE
  • PREHISTORIC MAN
  • PROMETHEUS
  • PYRAMID
  • PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM
  • SAILBOAT
  • SEXTANT
  • STARFISH
  • SUNFLOWER
  • TEAPOT
  • TEST TUBE
  • THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON
  • TRILOBITE FOSSIL
  • VOLTA'S BATTERY
  • WATER
  • WATER WHEEL
  • WATT'S STEAM ENGINE
  • WELL
  • WINDMILL
  • ZEBRA
  • ZOOLOGY

VENUS

Symbol of the hand mirror of Venus, Roman goddess of love

Venus and Mercury, rapidly moving but remaining in the vicinity of the Sun, were often confused as the morning star and the evening star. Brilliant Venus was captivating, dominating the sky yet elusive in the glare of the Sun. Numerous spacecraft have visited Venus, revealing an exotic place below cloaking clouds. Venus and Mars are considered Earth's twins, planets that started out as similar worlds, yet evolved along very different paths.