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Solar History traces the Sun’s evolution from the origins of the Solar System some 4,500,000 yr ago to recent months. In doing so it fuses the data of astrophysicists with those of observational astronomers, field scientists and historians. The subject matter thus spans a wide range of timescales, from the aeons (Gyr, 109 yr) of the solar modellers to the millions of years (Myr, 106 yr) in which much of solar history is read from meteorites, the millennia and centuries (105–102 yr) documented by ice cores, tree rings and sunspots, and the decades, years, days and seconds (101–10−9 yr) of telescopic and satellite observational astronomy.
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Vita-Finzi, C. (2013). Introduction. In: Solar History. SpringerBriefs in Astronomy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4295-6_1
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