01987cam a2200373 i 4500 283108160 TxAuBib 20011012120000.0 011012s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001029895 9780375409806 $25.00 0375409807 $25.00 TxAuBib rda Jago, Lucy. The Northern Lights : The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis / Lucy Jago. 1st American ed. New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. 297 p : hardbound ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. 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. Booklist September 01,2001. Publ Weekly August 13,2001. Kirkus August 01,2001. Throughout the ages, the lights of the aurora borealis were believed to be messengers of gods, signs of apocalypse, or soul of the dead; even the most sophisticated scientists misapprehended their cause. Now Lucy Jago tells the story of the science--and the romance--behind the Northern Lights as she traces the grand adventure of the life of the visionary Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland. 20011012. Birkeland, Kristian Olaf Bernhard 1867-1917. Scientists Norway Biography. Aurora Borealis. Geophysicists Norway Biography. Northern Lights.