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The sun's influence on life on Earth is obvious today. But only a century ago, the effect of sunlight and solar cycles on our planet aroused controversy. In The Sun Kings, Stuart Clark brilliantly tells the story of the scientists, including English astronomer Richard Carrington, who over a period of two centuries were able to put together the series of observations necessary to prove the sun's power (for example, through the effects of solar flares on climate and radio communications).