Our Sun: Revised Edition

✍ Scribed by Donald H. Menzel

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 364
• Series: Harvard Books on Astronomy; 5
• Edition: Rev. ed. Reprint 2014
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Menzel Donald H. :

Donald H. Menzel was Director of Harvard College Observatory, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1. Meet the Sun
2. A Panoramic Sunscape
3. Light, Atoms, and Test Tubes
4. The Message of Sunlight
5. Solar Chemistry
6. Sunspots–Magnetic Islands
7. Fine Details of the Solar Surface
8. Prominences–Geysers and Volcanoes
9. The Corona Mystery
10. Solar Eclipses–Old and New
11. Atomic Energy and the Solar Interior
12. The Sun and the Universe
13. Solar Power and Human Needs
14. The Sun and the Earth
Index