Heavenly magnets: Nature and principles of space magnetism

The book of Dmitry Sokolov was not conceived as a study of the world of physical phenomena, but in many respects as a saga about science itself. Talking about magnetic fields, the author seeks to show how and why physicists work.
How are the magnetic fields of distant stars arranged? How do they appear, how do they differ, how and what they affect? How can you change the earth"s magnetic field and what are the ways to observe it? What is the phenomenon of the Kursk magnetic anomaly? What is the structure of magnetic fields of spiral galaxies and the sun and how are the magnetic cycles that scientists tried to track from ancient times are associated with them? The answers to these and many other questions are accompanied by entertaining plots from the life of scientists and the history of Russian and world science