BIBFRAME Work

Title

The Sun Today

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Vita-Finzi, Claudio (author)

Subject

• Astronomy-Observations (LCSH)
• P22022
• U12007
• PG
• SCI004000 (BISACSH)
• Climatic changes (LCSH)
• P22014
• G36000
• Atmospheric science (LCSH)
• G18009
• Geophysics (LCSH)
• Astrophysics (LCSH)
• Astronomy--Observations (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 520
• LCC: QB4 (Status: not used by assigner) (Status: upgraded prepub)

Content

• text

Summary

From the reviews of other books by Claudio Vita-Finzi: The Sun - A User's Manual (2008) ....this, jargon-free, concise, beautifully illustrated and eminently readable book... D.W. Hughes, Times Literary Supplement Solar History (2013) ....a book that is supremely informative, intensely stimulating and enjoyable to read... Ian Seymour, Astronomy Now A History of the Solar System (2016) ...there is a huge amount of useful information in this book that would benefit anyone who needed more detail than is available in a typical popular science title. Brian Clegg, Popular Science.

Table of Contents

Preface -- 1..A commonplace star -- 2..An inconstant star -- 3..Solar composition -- 4.The solar body -- 5. The solar furnace -- 6. Solar magnetism -- 7. Sun and weather -- Index.

Authorized Access Point

Vita-Finzi, Claudio. The Sun Today

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