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Loading contentA roughly seventy-year span in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries when sunspots almost vanished from the record. It overlapped part of the cooler period known as the Little Ice Age, though the size of any climate link is debated. It is the archetype of a grand solar minimum.
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