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pendently arrived at the same conclusion.
It took many years before this coinci-
dence was accepted as certainly more than
an accident by the old-fashioned astronomers,
who want rigid proof for every new theory.
But the last doubts have long vanished, and
a connection has been further traced be-
tween violent outbursts of solar activity and
simultaneous magnetic storms.
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