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From earliest times, the Sun has been revered and held in awe. For the Greeks of Aristotle’s time, sunlight epitomized the fire in the four basic elements — earth, air, fire and water — from which all things arose. Ancient solar observatories, dedicated to the divine Sun-god Ra, can still be found in Luxor, that enchanting city by the Nile; giant Egyptian obelisks, erected thousands of years ago in Luxor and Heliopolis (City of the Sun), now cast their shadows in sundial fashion across points of Paris, London, and Rome.
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Lang, K.R. (1995). Good Day, Sunshine. In: Sun, Earth and Sky. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57852-6_1
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