TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jago,Lucy
TI  - The northern lights
SN  - 0375409807
AV  - QC805 .B57 J34 2001
U1  - 538/.7/092 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - Birkeland, Kr.
KW  - Birkeland, Kristian Olaf Bernhard.
KW  - Auroras
KW  - Geophysicists
KW  - Norway
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Noorderlicht
KW  - gtt
KW  - Polarlicht
KW  - gnd
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index; Aurora borealis: Odin's messengers -- Land of the Lapps -- The castle -- A warning -- "Riddle solved!" -- The cannon -- Mad dogs -- The terrella: Explosion! -- The furnace -- Ida -- Looking back from space -- The divine option -- Vast, infinite space -- Zodiacal light: The dusty disc -- War -- Letters from home -- Brittle remains -- Epilogue
N2  - Explores how Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland discovered the origins of the Northern Lights
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