History of Astronomy : Topics

History of Astronomy: Topics: Solar Astronomy

• Sun
  Including a short history of mythology and exploration.
• Brief History of Solar Physics
• Churches as scientific instruments, by J. L. Heilbron
  About solar observations in cathedrals in Bologna, Rome, Florence, and Paris during the 17th and 18th centuries.
• Solar Astronomy, by William Nielsen Brandt
  A timeline
• Myths about the Sun
• Sunspots
• Sunspots [discovery by Galileo]
• Professor John Winthrop's Notes on Sun Spot Observations (1739), by Frederick G. Kilgour
• The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere
  Including sections on The Sun and The Solar Wind.

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 22 Nov 1995. Latest update: 6 May 1998