HOW DID WE FIND OUT ABOUT SUNSHINE?
by Isaac Asimov
The sun's violent glow powers nearly every movement on the Earth's surface, yet its origin is still incompletely understood. This is Asimov's message; and as in the other 29 books in his "How did we find out?" series, he takes readers on a historical tour of scientific research. In this case, the topic is: "How does the sun shine?"—and from Aristotle's theory of the Ether to Reines' neutrino detector, the author shows, in a nontechnical way, how successive ideas were suggested, studied, discarded or refined. A natural companion volume to Asimov's briefer What Makes the Sun Shine? (1971) or the plethora of other simple introductions to our nearest star. Occasional diagrams and pencil drawings; index.