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Recent studies in geophysics and climatology have made use of historical observations of sunspots and aurorae as indicators of variation in solar activity over the past 2500 years. Most of these solar observations were of Chinese origin and it is the propitious combination of social and environmental conditions in China that led to their recording which is the subject of this essay.
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Bray, J.R. (1974). The Modern Use of Historical Chinese Solar Observations. In: Cohen, R.S., Stachel, J.J., Wartofsky, M.W. (eds) For Dirk Struik. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2115-9_12
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