Fire of Life: The Smithsonian Book of the Sun

by Smithsonian Institution

Explores man's perception of and relation to the sun from earliest times to the present, discussing the sun's origin, solar energy, and facts and theories that implicate the sun in near-disasters and including hundreds of photographs and illustrations

Genres: Nature, Astronomy

262 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1981

About the author

Founded in 1846, the Smithsonian Institution or simply the Smithsonian is a group of museums, education and research centres created by the United States federal government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge"