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Title: Sun, The: One Thousand Years of Scientific Imagery
Author: BARRETT KATY / CLIFF HARRY
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/03/2019
Imprint: SCALA
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
Dazzling, beautiful, powerful, mysterious – the Sun has fascinated people throughout history. This
book charts our changing understanding of the Sun through a rich collection of scientific imagery:
from from a 10th-century manuscript drawing of an earth-centred universe, to awe-inspiring
close-ups of our turbulent star taken by orbiting spacecraft. Each image tells a story of evolving
scientific understanding and techniques, as well as the personal dedication of the theologians,
artists and astronomers who made them.
Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The sun and planets; The solar surface; Eruptions; Sunlight;
Eclipsed; Glossary; Further reading.
Published to accompany the special exhibition The Sun: Living with Our Star, running at the
Science Museum from 6 October 2018 to 6 May 2019.
41 colour, 37 b/w images
ISBN: 9781785511721
Dimension: 210mm X 210mm