A sun most pure and most lucid; background of the Maunder Minimum; the Maunder Minimum - Europe, Asia, North America; surveying the Maunder Minimum; Maunder's early life and associations; the family Maunder - the BAA and astronomy for all; a particle theory for the sun-Earth connection; our knowledge of the sun and its variability today; cycles of the sun and their tie to Earth; the Maunders and their final story. (Part contents)
.,." an engaging summary of sunspot understanding, sunspot
observation, and linkages between sunspots and changes in Earth's
atmosphere.?
"This book is a wonderful reading which combines intellectual ideas
from various branches of modern science, i.e. astronomy,
climatology, physics, history of science, biology, etc. The content
is very deep and the authors are not afraid to show the soul of
scientific methods to the reader. Yet the book avoids complicated
mathematical details. The book is interesting for specialists and
understandable for general public. One learns from the book about a
cataclysm which happened about 350 years ago on the Sun supported
and probed by various observational methods including the novel
technique of learning about the Sun from other 'solar stars'. A
coherent understanding of the information obtained perhaps requires
a century and this story looks more intriguing, rather like many
crime stories. The Maunder minimum of solar activity affected
various aspects of life on Earth and it is impossible to ignore
related experiences by discussing such important topics as global
warming, greenhouse effect, sun-climate relation, etc. I believe
that everybody who would like to know what modern science offers
about these varieties of topics can learn a great deal from the
book of W Soon and S Yaskell."
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