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Chapter 7

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FOUNDATION OF ASTRONOMICAL PHYSICS

Schwabe's Discovery of a Decennial Sun-spot Period--Coincidence with Period of Magnetic Disturbance--Sun-spots and Weather--Spectrum Analysis--Preliminary Inquiries--Fraunhofer Lines--Kirchhoff's Principle--Anticipations--Elementary Principles of Spectrum Analysis--Unity of Nature 125