The enigma of sunspots : a story of discovery and scientific revolution /
Brody, Judit,
The enigma of sunspots : a story of discovery and scientific revolution / Judit Brody. - 191 páginas : ilustraciones (algunas a color), láminas ; 20 cm.
Incluye bibliografía.
Gazers and gawpers -- Do gods have blemishes? -- The world according to Aristotle -- A new instrument opens new worlds -- A hasty publication -- Two astronomers fight for priority -- An Englishman observes -- Sunspot watching as a popular pastime -- Facts and speculations -- A breakthrough -- Herschel´s strange ideas -- Matching cycles -- A sudden flare of light -- The magnetic sun -- A glance at the sun -- Tenuous links -- Appendix 1: Some literary allusions -- Appendix 2: Safe observation of the sun -- Personalities.
0863153704 9780863153709
Manchas solares.
Sol.--Observaciones--Historia.
523.7409 / B864e 2002
The enigma of sunspots : a story of discovery and scientific revolution / Judit Brody. - 191 páginas : ilustraciones (algunas a color), láminas ; 20 cm.
Incluye bibliografía.
Gazers and gawpers -- Do gods have blemishes? -- The world according to Aristotle -- A new instrument opens new worlds -- A hasty publication -- Two astronomers fight for priority -- An Englishman observes -- Sunspot watching as a popular pastime -- Facts and speculations -- A breakthrough -- Herschel´s strange ideas -- Matching cycles -- A sudden flare of light -- The magnetic sun -- A glance at the sun -- Tenuous links -- Appendix 1: Some literary allusions -- Appendix 2: Safe observation of the sun -- Personalities.
0863153704 9780863153709
Manchas solares.
Sol.--Observaciones--Historia.
523.7409 / B864e 2002