| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxi, 574 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [519]-552) and index. |
| Contents |
Sunrise : Mount Fuji -- The sun before science. Telling stories ; Celebrating the seasons ; The three thousand witnesses ; Terrors of the sky -- Discovering the sun. The first astronomers ; Enter the Greeks ; Gifts of the Yellow Emperor ; The sultan's turret ; The Earth moves ; Strange seas of thought ; Eclipses and enlightenment ; The sun dethroned -- The sun on Earth. Sunspots ; The qualities of light ; Beneath the beating sun ; Skin deep ; The breath of life ; The dark biosphere -- Harnessing the sun. The heavenly guide ; Of calendars and dials ; How time goes by ; The sun in our pocket -- Inspired by a star. The vital symbol ; Drawing on the sun ; Negative capabilities ; Talk of the day ; Busie Old Foole ; The rising star of politics -- The sun and the future. Over the horizon ; Under the weather ; The impossible and beyond ; The death of the sun -- Sunset : the Ganges. |
| Subject |
Sun -- History.
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Astronomy -- History.
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Science and civilization.
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| ISBN |
9781400068753 alkaline paper $35.00 |
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9781588369345 (eBook) |
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1400068754 alkaline paper |
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158836934X (eBook) |
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