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Published online 22 December 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031215-12
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Sun set food prices in the Middle Ages
Changes in solar activity sent wheat prices soaring in medieval England.
The belief in the Middle Ages that the heavens govern fate and fortune might not have been as ludicrous as it sounds.
Two researchers in Israel have found a statistical link between the activity of the Sun and the price of wheat in seventeenth-century England.
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