The Sun in Time (Space Science Series) [Hardcover]

Charles P. Sonett (Editor), Mark S. Giampapa (Editor), Mildred Shapley Matthews (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1991 | Series: Space Science Series

An interdisciplinary approach to solar physics, as eighty-nine contributors trace the evolution of the Sun and provide a review of our current understanding of both its structure and its role in the origin and evolution of the solar system.

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Review

"Well written, accessible to the non-specialist, and extensively cross-referenced. . . . An excellent companion to Solar Interior and Atmosphere, reaching the more exotic parts that a more basic text cannot reach."—The Observatory

About the Author

C.P. Sonett is Regents' Professor Emeritus of planetary science at the University of Arizona

M.S. Giampapa is a staff astronomer at National Solar Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 990 pages
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press; First Edition edition (December 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816512973
• ISBN-13: 978-0816512973
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,889,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Review of "The Sun in Time" University of Arizona Press, March 6, 2000

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Edward Williams (Dearborn, Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sun in Time (Space Science Series) (Hardcover)

This is a superb text whose editors have done yeoman duty coalescing the work of the best scientists in the field. The articles within this tome are remarkably accessible to the layperson, such as myself, keenly interested in astronomy, its history, and its current research. The authors of the articles in this encyclopedic work have exercised commendable care in documenting their sources, back to and including Galileo's pioneering work to discover that, contrary to the doctrine of the time, the Sun's disc isn't free of "blemishes." This is the first work (of many) I've studied which made crystal-clear how the variation in sunspot paths across the disc during the year served to support some conjectures and refute others concerning the Sun.