A Concise History of Solar and Stellar PhysicsPrinceton University Press, 2014 M11 28 - 304 pages This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Two theoretical astrophysicists who have been active in the field since the early 1960s tell the story in fluent prose. About half of the book covers most of the theoretical research done from 1940 to the close of the twentieth century, a large body of work that has to date been little explored by historians. |
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... astronomers and scientifically curious lay people who are interested in the historical development of solar and stellar physics. To this end we have cited, where appropriate, in footnotes to the text several key references as an aid to ...
... astronomer. Anaximander (c. 611–547 b.c.), who was the successor and probably pupil of Thales, was the first to have developed anything like a cosmological system; he was also the first among the Greeks who ventured to draw a map of the ...
... astronomers from his time to the dawn of the seventeenth century—a stretch of two thousand years. Eudoxus (c. 408–355 b.c.) of Cnidus, who came to Athens at the age of twentythree where he heard Plato and the sophists, is one of the key ...
... astronomers of antiquity, Hipparchus (c. 190–120 b.c.) of Nicaea in Asia Minor. The reasons that weighed with Hipparchus were presumably the facts that a system in which the sun was the exact center did not seem to account for the ...
... astronomers of the early Middle Ages in the Latin West were ignorant of the epicycle theories of the planets.11 The scientific heritage of that period was fully displayed by the encyclopedist Isidorus Hispalensis (c. 560–636) ...
Contents
1 | |
16101910 | 29 |
18401910 | 66 |
19101940 | 94 |
19401970 | 133 |
1970 | 192 |
Epilogue | 247 |
Appendix A Lanes Fully Convective Gas Spheres | 250 |
Appendix C Ritters Theory of Pulsating Stars | 252 |
Appendix D Radial and Nonradial Stellar Pulsations | 254 |
Appendix E Bohrs Model of the Atom | 257 |
Appendix F Einsteins MassEnergy Relation | 260 |
Appendix G Three Important Nuclear Reactions | 263 |
General Bibliography | 265 |
Index of Names | 269 |
Index of Subjects | 277 |
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