Editing Solar cooker (section)

== History ==
[[File:Koken op zonnestralen, demonstratie vrouwelijke geleerde India, Bestanddeelnr 914-3949 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|An Indian scientist demonstrates a solar cooker in 1963]]
In ancient times, the use of solar energy was believed to have existed in civilizations amidst the [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]], [[Ancient Rome|Roman]]s and the [[Ancient China|Chinese]], though not for cooking.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Solar Cooking History |url=https://www.solarcooker-at-cantinawest.com/solarcooking-history.html |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=www.solarcooker-at-cantinawest.com |archive-date=2022-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114182648/https://www.solarcooker-at-cantinawest.com/solarcooking-history.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The first academic description of the principles of a solar cooker is by the [[Republic of Geneva|Genevan]] geologist, meteorologist, physicist, and Alpine explorer [[Horace-Bénédict de Saussure]], in [[1767]]. The principle of cooking meals by sunlight was largely developed in the [[French Foreign Legion]], in the 1870s.<ref>Nichols, C. Alan. [http://solarcooking.org/plans/Cookerbo.pdf THE TRACKING SOLAR COOKER] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728183052/http://solarcooking.org/plans/Cookerbo.pdf |date=2019-07-28 }}. solarcooking.org</ref>