The clock in the sun: how we came to understand our nearest star
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| Abstract: | "The sun has been worshiped as a deity in many cultures, for giving life and light. In medieval times in Russia, China, and Korea, occasional observations of dark spots on the sun were recorded and interpreted as omens of instability, or as harbingers of disaster. By contrast, in Europe, in a cosmology originating from the ancient Greeks, the sun was regarded as a perfect body, part of the unchanging celestial realm. The discovery of imperfections on the solar surface by Galileo and others and dubbed sun-spots played an important part in the development of new sciences that broke with the medieval worldview. In the early 19th century amateur observers discovered that the number of sunspots ebbed and flowed with a cycle of about eleven years. This discovery of a solar cycle captured the popular imagination and led to intriguing speculations on such diverse topics as solar influences on the weather and even business cycles. While notions of predicting market prices by counting sun-spots proved illusory, subsequent astronomical discoveries of the sun's magnetic field and the magnetic nature of sunspots themselves led to the discovery of the outflow of the sun's matter into space, known as the solar wind. The earth is in fact closely coupled with the sun in a kind of magnetic cocoon. This sun-earth connection affects our atmosphere, communications and power transmission networks, as well as the ability of cosmic radiation from outside our solar system to penetrate our atmosphere. This is one of the great compelling stories of our interconnection with the larger universe. This book will trace the development of our scientific knowledge of the sun and its influence on the earth by interweaving the science with historical, political, and cultural contexts. The unifying theme is the puzzle of the cyclical solar imperfections whose rhythm has been tied to all kinds of events on earth. Topics from astronomy, optics, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics will be introduced conceptually as needed."-- |
| Beschreibung: | 2409 |
| Umfang: | xi, 322 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780231202480 |
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| 520 | 3 | |a "The sun has been worshiped as a deity in many cultures, for giving life and light. In medieval times in Russia, China, and Korea, occasional observations of dark spots on the sun were recorded and interpreted as omens of instability, or as harbingers of disaster. By contrast, in Europe, in a cosmology originating from the ancient Greeks, the sun was regarded as a perfect body, part of the unchanging celestial realm. The discovery of imperfections on the solar surface by Galileo and others and dubbed sun-spots played an important part in the development of new sciences that broke with the medieval worldview. In the early 19th century amateur observers discovered that the number of sunspots ebbed and flowed with a cycle of about eleven years. This discovery of a solar cycle captured the popular imagination and led to intriguing speculations on such diverse topics as solar influences on the weather and even business cycles. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a While notions of predicting market prices by counting sun-spots proved illusory, subsequent astronomical discoveries of the sun's magnetic field and the magnetic nature of sunspots themselves led to the discovery of the outflow of the sun's matter into space, known as the solar wind. The earth is in fact closely coupled with the sun in a kind of magnetic cocoon. This sun-earth connection affects our atmosphere, communications and power transmission networks, as well as the ability of cosmic radiation from outside our solar system to penetrate our atmosphere. This is one of the great compelling stories of our interconnection with the larger universe. This book will trace the development of our scientific knowledge of the sun and its influence on the earth by interweaving the science with historical, political, and cultural contexts. The unifying theme is the puzzle of the cyclical solar imperfections whose rhythm has been tied to all kinds of events on earth. | |
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| contents | Sunspots as omens : Russian and Chinese observations -- The roots of Western cosmology : Mesopotamia, Greece, and Islam -- Medieval Europe and the Islamic Empire : where have all the sunspots gone? -- The invention of the telescope : sunspots as heresy -- After Galileo : sunspots as windows into the sun and omens of weather -- Discovery of the solar cycle : sunspots as clocks -- The business cycle : sunspots as economic indicator -- Solar spectroscopy : sunspots as magnetometers -- The sun and the weather : sunspots as meteorlogical omens -- Twentieth-century business cycle <-> solar cycle theories -- Sunspots, the solar wind, and the sun-Earth connection -- The sun's energy source : solar oscillations and neutrinos -- Sunspots today : current theories of the solar cycle and the sun-Earth connection |
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| spelling | Sokolsky, Pierre 1946- Verfasser (DE-588)1272812553 aut The clock in the sun how we came to understand our nearest star Pierre Sokolsky New York Columbia University Press [2024] © 2024 xi, 322 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 23 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 2409 Sunspots as omens : Russian and Chinese observations -- The roots of Western cosmology : Mesopotamia, Greece, and Islam -- Medieval Europe and the Islamic Empire : where have all the sunspots gone? -- The invention of the telescope : sunspots as heresy -- After Galileo : sunspots as windows into the sun and omens of weather -- Discovery of the solar cycle : sunspots as clocks -- The business cycle : sunspots as economic indicator -- Solar spectroscopy : sunspots as magnetometers -- The sun and the weather : sunspots as meteorlogical omens -- Twentieth-century business cycle <-> solar cycle theories -- Sunspots, the solar wind, and the sun-Earth connection -- The sun's energy source : solar oscillations and neutrinos -- Sunspots today : current theories of the solar cycle and the sun-Earth connection "The sun has been worshiped as a deity in many cultures, for giving life and light. In medieval times in Russia, China, and Korea, occasional observations of dark spots on the sun were recorded and interpreted as omens of instability, or as harbingers of disaster. By contrast, in Europe, in a cosmology originating from the ancient Greeks, the sun was regarded as a perfect body, part of the unchanging celestial realm. The discovery of imperfections on the solar surface by Galileo and others and dubbed sun-spots played an important part in the development of new sciences that broke with the medieval worldview. In the early 19th century amateur observers discovered that the number of sunspots ebbed and flowed with a cycle of about eleven years. This discovery of a solar cycle captured the popular imagination and led to intriguing speculations on such diverse topics as solar influences on the weather and even business cycles. While notions of predicting market prices by counting sun-spots proved illusory, subsequent astronomical discoveries of the sun's magnetic field and the magnetic nature of sunspots themselves led to the discovery of the outflow of the sun's matter into space, known as the solar wind. The earth is in fact closely coupled with the sun in a kind of magnetic cocoon. This sun-earth connection affects our atmosphere, communications and power transmission networks, as well as the ability of cosmic radiation from outside our solar system to penetrate our atmosphere. This is one of the great compelling stories of our interconnection with the larger universe. This book will trace the development of our scientific knowledge of the sun and its influence on the earth by interweaving the science with historical, political, and cultural contexts. The unifying theme is the puzzle of the cyclical solar imperfections whose rhythm has been tied to all kinds of events on earth. Topics from astronomy, optics, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics will be introduced conceptually as needed."-- Geschichte gnd rswk-swf Sonnenfleck (DE-588)4181827-1 gnd rswk-swf Sonne (DE-588)1236963652 gnd rswk-swf Sunspots / History Solar cycle / History Solar-terrestrial physics / History Taches solaires / Histoire Physique des relations Soleil-Terre / Histoire Sonne (DE-588)1236963652 g Sonnenfleck (DE-588)4181827-1 s Geschichte z DE-604 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-0-231-55458-9 |
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