The Net Advance of Physics RETRO:
The Sun

Solar Physics in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Most material in Net Advance Retro antedates 1920. It may be obsolete or incorrect. For more recent technical information, please consult the Sun page at the regular Net Advance site.

• General: Source of Energy:
  • Speculations. Solar Heat, Gravitation, and Sun Spots by J. H. Kedzie [Chicago: Griggs, 1886]

• Aspects: SOLAR-POWER TECHNOLOGY; TRANSITS;

• Aspects: ECLIPSES:
  • Observations of the Transit of Venus Over the Sun, and the Eclipse of the Sun by Rev. Nevil Maskelyne [Phil. Trans. R. S. L. 58, 355 (1768)]
  • Reports on Observations of the Total Solar Eclipse of December 22, 1870 by Simon Newcombe, Asaph Hall, and Wm. Harkness [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871]
  • Total Eclipses of the Sun by Mabel Loomis Todd [Boston: Roberts, 1894]

• Aspects: SUNSPOTS:
  • Speculations. Solar Heat, Gravitation, and Sun Spots by J. H. Kedzie [Chicago: Griggs, 1886]

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