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Index
Half-title page
Also by Richard Cohen
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
List of Illustrations and Illustration Credits
Preface
Sunrise on Mount Fuji
PART ONE THE SUN BEFORE SCIENCE
1 Telling Stories
2 Celebrating the Seasons
3 The Three Thousand Witnesses
4 Terrors of the Sky
PART TWO DISCOVERING THE SUN
5 The First Astronomers
6 Enter the Greeks
7 Gifts of the Yellow Emperor
8 The Sultan's Turret
9 The Earth Moves
10 Strange Seas of Thought
11 Eclipses and Enlightenment
12 The Sun Dethroned
PART THREE THE SUN ON EARTH
13 Sunspots
14 The Qualities of Light
15 Beneath the Beating Sun
16 Skin Deep
17 The Breath of Life
18 The Dark Biosphere
PART FOUR HARNESSING THE SUN
19 The Heavenly Guide
20 Of Calendars and Dials
21 How Time Goes By
22 The Sun in Our Pocket
PART FIVE INSPIRED BY A STAR
23 The Vital Symbol
24 Drawing on the Sun
25 Negative Capabilities
26 Talk of the Day
27 Busy Old Fool . . .
28 The Rising Star of Politics
PART SIX THE SUN AND THE FUTURE
29 Over the Horizon
30 Under the Weather
31 The Impossible and Beyond
32 The Death of the Sun
Sunset on the Ganges
Acknowledgements
Sources
Index
Note on the Author
Plates
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