Pierre Sokolsky: The Clock in the Sun

Cover: 9780231202480 | The Clock in the Sun | How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star

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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.

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Pierre Sokolsky

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9780231202480
ISBN-10:	0231202482
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Sokolsky, Pierre
Hersteller:	Columbia University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	149 x 227 x 31 mm
Von/Mit:	Pierre Sokolsky
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.10.2024
Gewicht:	0,592 kg