Pierre Sokolsky provides a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle, shedding new light on key discoveries and the people who made them.
Pierre Sokolsky provides a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle, shedding new light on key discoveries and the people who made them.
Preface Introduction 1. Sunspots as Omens: Russian and Chinese Observations 2. The Roots of Western Cosmology: Mesopotamia, Greece, and Islam 3. Medieval Europe and the Islamic Empire: Where Have All the Sunspots Gone? 4. The Invention of the Telescope: Sunspots as Heresy 5. After Galileo: Sunspots as Windows Into the Sun and Omens of Weather 6. Discovery of the Solar Cycle: Sunspots as Clocks 7. The Business Cycle: Sunspots as Economic Indicator 8. Solar Spectroscopy: Sunspots as Magnetometers 9. The Sun and the Weather: Sunspots as Meteorological Omens 10. Twentieth-Century Business Cycle ¿ Solar Cycle Theories 11. Sunspots, the Solar Wind, and the Sun-Earth Connection 12. The Sun's Energy Source: Solar Oscillations and Neutrinos 13. Sunspots Today: Current Theories of the Solar Cycle and the Sun-Earth Connection Appendix A. Electric and Magnetic Fields Appendix B. Atoms and Their Spectra Notes Additional Reading Index
Preface Introduction 1. Sunspots as Omens: Russian and Chinese Observations 2. The Roots of Western Cosmology: Mesopotamia, Greece, and Islam 3. Medieval Europe and the Islamic Empire: Where Have All the Sunspots Gone? 4. The Invention of the Telescope: Sunspots as Heresy 5. After Galileo: Sunspots as Windows Into the Sun and Omens of Weather 6. Discovery of the Solar Cycle: Sunspots as Clocks 7. The Business Cycle: Sunspots as Economic Indicator 8. Solar Spectroscopy: Sunspots as Magnetometers 9. The Sun and the Weather: Sunspots as Meteorological Omens 10. Twentieth-Century Business Cycle ¿ Solar Cycle Theories 11. Sunspots, the Solar Wind, and the Sun-Earth Connection 12. The Sun's Energy Source: Solar Oscillations and Neutrinos 13. Sunspots Today: Current Theories of the Solar Cycle and the Sun-Earth Connection Appendix A. Electric and Magnetic Fields Appendix B. Atoms and Their Spectra Notes Additional Reading Index
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