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This book takes an excursion through solar science, science history, and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed some of our sun's most stubborn secrets. E Walter and Annie S D Maunder's work helped in understanding our sun's chemical, electromagnetic and plasma properties. They knew the sun's sunspot migration patterns and its variable, climate-affecting, inactive and active states in short and long time frames. An inactive solar period starting in the mid-seventeenth century lasted approximately seventy years, one that E Walter Maunder worked hard to make us understand: the Ma
Sunspots. --- Climatic changes. --- Astronomers --- Physical scientists --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Sun-spots --- Solar activity --- Starspots --- Environmental aspects --- Maunder, E. Walter --- Maunder, Edward Walter, --- Sun. --- Solar system --- Global environmental change
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In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious. Compasses and other sensitive instruments reeled as if struck by a massive magnetic fist. For the first time, people began to suspect that the Earth was not isolated from the rest of the universe. However, nobody knew what could have released such strange forces upon the Earth--nobody, that is, except the amateur English astronomer Richard Carrington. In this riveting account, Stuart Clark tells for the first time the full story behind Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the Sun and how his brilliant insight--that the Sun's magnetism directly influences the Earth--helped to usher in the modern era of astronomy. Clark vividly brings to life the scientists who roundly rejected the significance of Carrington's discovery of solar flares, as well as those who took up his struggle to prove the notion that the Earth could be touched by influences from space. Clark also reveals new details about the sordid scandal that destroyed Carrington's reputation and led him from the highest echelons of science to the very lowest reaches of love, villainy, and revenge. The Sun Kings transports us back to Victorian England, into the very heart of the great nineteenth-century scientific controversy about the Sun's hidden influence over our planet.
Astronomers --- Solar flares --- Chromospheric eruptions --- Flares, Solar --- Solar activity --- Observations --- History --- Carrington, Richard Christopher, --- Herschel, William, --- Herschel, John F. W. --- Hale, George Ellery, --- Maunder, E. Walter --- Maunder, Edward Walter, --- Hale, George E. --- Gershelʹ, Dzhon Frederik Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Гершель, Джон Фредерик Уильям, --- Gershelʹ, Zhon, --- Гершель, Жон, --- Herschel, J. F. W. --- Herschel, John Frederick, --- Herschel, John Frederick William, --- Herschel, John, --- Hexiao, --- 赫孝, --- Gershelʹ, Fridrikh Vilʹgelʹm, --- Gershelʹ, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Herschel, Frederick William, --- Herschel, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Herschel, Wilhelm, --- Sun --- Solar system
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