Chasing the sun : the epic story of the star that gives us life / Richard Cohen.

Author: Cohen, Richard, 1947-

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Random House, c2010.

ISBN: 9781400068753
1400068754

Description: xxxi, 574 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.

Subject: Astronomy History.
Science and civilization.
Sun History.

Contents: Telling stories -- Celebrating the seasons -- The three thousand witnesses -- Terrors of the sky -- The first astronomers --Enter the Greeks -- Gifts of the yellow emperor -- The sultan's turret -- The Earth moves -- Strange seas of thought -- Eclipses and enlightenment -- The Sun dethroned -- Sunspots -- The qualities of light -- Beneath the beating Sun -- Skin deep -- The breath of life -- The dark biosphere -- The heavenly guide -- Of calendars and dials -- How time goes by -- The Sun in our pocket -- The vital symbol -- Drawing on the Sun -- Negative capabilities -- Talk of the day -- Busie old foole -- The rising star of politics -- Over the horizon -- Under the weather -- The impossible and beyond -- The death of the Sun.