Foreword ....................................................... ix
Acknowledgements ............................................... xv
1. A Sun Most Pure and Most Lucid .............................. 1
2. Background of the Maunder Minimum .......................... 11
3. The Maunder Minimum: Europe, Asia, North America
(As Dated from с. A.D. 1620-A.D. 1650) ..................... 25
4. The Maunder Minimum: Europe, Asia, North America
(As Dated from с. A.D. 1650-A.D. 1720) ..................... 41
5. Surveying the Maunder Minimum .............................. 73
6. Maunder's Immediate Predecessors in Delineating Solar
Structure and Behavior: Towards Understanding Solar
Variability and Sun-Climate Connections .................... 85
7. Maunder's Early Life and Associations ...................... 97
8. Maunder and the Connection of Sunspot Behavior and
Geomagnetism: Resolving "the Fifty Years'
Outstanding Difficulty" ................................... 111
9. Studying Aurora... the Scandinavian and American
Connection: Tree Rings, Moisture and the Missing
Sunspot Cycles ............................................ 129
10. The Family Maunder: The B.A.A. and Astronomy for All ...... 146
11. A Particle Theory for the Sun-Earth Connection ............ 159
12. Our Knowledge of the Sun and Its Variability Today ........ 174
13. Earth's Atmosphere and Its Story: A Perspective of Past
Changes on the Present .................................... 188
14. The Maunder Minimum and Modern Theories of the Sun's
Cyclical Machinery ........................................ 216
15. Summary: Cycles of the Sun and Their Tie to Earth ......... 236
16. The Maunders and Their Final Story ........................ 247
Index of Sources .............................................. 251
Index ......................................................... 266
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