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Index
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Sunrise: Mount Fuji
Part One: The Sun Before Science
Chapter 1: Telling Stories
Chapter 2: Celebrating the Seasons
Chapter 3: The Three Thousand Witnesses
Chapter 4: Terrors of the Sky
Part Two: Discovering the Sun
Chapter 5: The First Astronomers
Chapter 6: Enter the Greeks
Chapter 7: Gifts of the Yellow Emperor
Chapter 8: The Sultan’s Turret
Chapter 9: The Earth Moves
Chapter 10: Strange Seas of Thought
Chapter 11: Eclipses and Enlightenment
Chapter 12: The Sun Dethroned
Part Three: The Sun on Earth
Chapter 13: Sunspots
Chapter 14: The Qualities of Light
Chapter 15: Beneath the Beating Sun
Chapter 16: Skin Deep
Chapter 17: The Breath of Life
Chapter 18: The Dark Biosphere
Part Four: Harnesssing the Sun
Chapter 19: The Heavenly Guide
Chapter 20: Of Calendars and Dials
Chapter 21: How Time Goes by
Chapter 22: The Sun in Our Pocket
Part Five: Inspired by a Star
Chapter 23: The Vital Symbol
Chapter 24: Drawing on the Sun
Chapter 25: Negative Capabilities
Chapter 26: Talk of the Day
Chapter 27: Busie Old Foole
Chapter 28: The Rising Star of Politics
Part Six: The Sun and the Future
Chapter 29: Over the Horizon
Chapter 30: Under the Weather
Chapter 31: The Impossible and Beyond
Chapter 32: The Death of the Sun
Photographs
Sunset: The Ganges
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
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