Clock in the Sun

Clock in the Sun

How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star

Sokolsky, Pierre

Columbia University Press

10/2024

336

Dura

9780231202480

15 a 20 dias

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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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