Aurora: The Mysterious Northern Lights

Aurora: The Mysterious Northern Lights
ISBN-10
087156419X
ISBN-13
9780871564191
Series
Aurora
Category
Science / Space Science / Astronomy
Pages
144
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Sierra Club Books
Authors
Candace Savage, Candace Sherk Savage

Description

Candace Savage explores the myth and science behind the aurora. She reveals the surprisingly common threads in the auroral traditions of distant cultures and follows the long, colorful, and sometimes fractious path that led scientists to the contemporary theory about the lights. Savage cuts through the morass of geophysical data and mathematical formulae to give us a lucid and fascinating account of how the lights happen.

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