Lectures about the sun. Yazev S.A.

Two thousand years ago, the Sun was a character in many legends, mythical spirit or even God. For a long time it was believed that the daylight was moving around the center of the world - the Earth. Four hundred years ago, people looked at the sun in the first telescopes - and could not believe what they saw. Today, several thousand specialists are studying the sun, but what do we know about it? How did we get this knowledge?

This book is not only about the Sun itself, but also about our ideas about it. About how speculative reasoning was replaced by scientific hypotheses, and the old hypotheses were new. About how they study what it is impossible to touch, and why such knowledge is reliable. About how complex and dramatic the path of the researchers of the sun is. And, of course, about all the most interesting things that happen on our star.