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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... Atom Appendix F. Einstein's Mass-Energy Relation Appendix G. Three Important Nuclear Reactions General Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects 114 120 123 128 133 135 143 147 156 166 173 177 183 192 193 202 210 220 228 234 247 250 ...
... atom cannot change the norms. Archangel Milne At heat of 10 to 7th power The gas degenerates in flame, Permitting us our shining hour Of freest flight in Fermi's name. The Three This vision fills us with elation (Though none of us can ...
... atoms taking the place of Anaxagoras' initial mixed mass in which “all things were together.” There is also the difference that material and space are supposed to be limitless so that there would be an unlimited number of worlds similar ...
... atoms and the void, he also taught that the number of these irreducible particles of matter and the extent of empty space are infinite. According to Epicurus, the universe therefore consists of numberless worlds strewn throughout an ...
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Contents
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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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A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics Jean-Louis Tassoul,Monique Tassoul Limited preview - 2014 |
A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics Jean Louis Tassoul,Monique Tassoul Limited preview - 2004 |