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THERE are very many cases recorded in the history of science in which we find that the most valuable and important applications have arisen from the study of the ideally useless. Long period weather forecasting, which at last seems to be coming into the region of practical politics as a result of the observation of solar changes, is another example of this sequence.
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Simultaneous Solar and Terrestrial Changes 1 . Nature 69, 351–357 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069351a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/069351a0