Christian Horrebow’s Sunspot Observations – I. Life and Published Writings

Between 1761 and 1776, Christian Horrebow made regular observations of sunspots from Rundetårn in Copenhagen. Based on these observations he writes in 1775 that “it appears that after the course of a certain number of years, the appearance of the Sun repeats itself with respect to the number and siz...

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Published in:Solar physics 2019-06, Vol.294 (6), p.1-12, Article 77
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