Through a glass brightly: Some new light on the Campbell–Stokes sunshine recorder

Although it is now 150 years since the first measurements of sunshine were made using the burning glass method, a number of questions concerning these observations remain open and are considered in this article. The first is historical and concerns the name of this type of sunshine recorder: Who was...

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