The Norwegian Expedition 1899-1900 for the Study of the Aurora Borealis
A Commented Translation of Kristian Birkeland's First Book on the Aurora
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 1 June 2026
- ISBN 9783032130976
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages346 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations VIII, 346 p. 83 illus., 27 illus. in color. 700
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This book is the first annotated English edition of Kristian Birkeland’s book ""Expédition Norvégienne 1899–1900 pour l’Étude des Aurores Boréales"" (1901), his earliest work devoted entirely to the aurora following his observation campaign in Northern Norway. It marks a turning point in Birkeland’s thinking towards the modern concept of vertical electric currents in the upper atmosphere and shows a distinct transition from a 19th-century intuitive practice of physics to a more modern, systematic scientific methodology.
Richly illustrated with unpublished material, this edition traces Birkeland’s approach to linking laboratory plasma experiments with auroral observations in the field, his efforts to secure public funding, his preparation and organisation of expeditions under extreme Arctic conditions, and his systematic use of state-of-the art instrumentation. His observational findings made it possible to refine his laboratory experiments and paved the way for his later, more ambitious and systematic observational campaigns as well as his well-known Terrella experiments.
In addition, the book provides an overview of the historical instruments used or mentioned by Birkeland and will appeal to historians of science as well as undergraduate students and advanced amateurs.
Table of Contents:
Authors’ preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction – Kristian Birkeland and the practice of Science around 1900.- Section I – Birkeland’s Norwegian expedition 1899–1900 for the study of the aurora borealis (ENEAB) — a commented translation.- About footnotes.- On a few phenomena of terrestrial magnetism due to the action of electric currents .- I. Simultaneous small magnetic variations at Bossekop and Potsdam.- Magnetic waves.- II. Electric currents in the upper strata of the atmosphere.-Translation motion of the lines of currents.- On a magnetic globe rotating in a beam of cathode rays.- Appendix.- The polar aurorae.- Artificial auroral bands.- On the formation of upper clouds.- List of annexed illustrations.- Section II – Observing, measuring & simulating geomagnetic phenomena – a review of the instruments used or mentioned by Birkeland in the ENEAB.- Introduction.- Bibliography.- Index.
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