Solution

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For the first field, set . Its field extension degree is four, since is real and adjoining doubles its degree. The polynomial is irreducible over : a reducible cubic would have a root in , but every root has degree three over by Eisenstein criterion, impossible by the tower law because . Thus
For the second field, put . The splitting field is and has degree eight, since is Eisenstein and is real. Define automorphisms and . They satisfy and , and give eight distinct automorphisms. Hence .
The Galois correspondence gives all the subfields in the following table. The middle column records generators, not merely their degrees.
Each displayed generator is fixed by the indicated subgroup. The two last quartic generators have fourth power , so their degree is four by Eisenstein criterion; the other quartic degrees are immediate. These are all the subgroups of and hence all the subextensions.

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