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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... body radiation The solar activity cycle Karl Schwarzschild Edward C. Pickering A group of staff members at the Harvard College Observatory The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram Ejnar Hertzsprung The mass-luminosity relation The visual light ...
... body of work which has so far seldom been explored by historians. The two opening chapters make no claim to be original contributions to the history of astronomy since they are written largely from second-hand sources. Chapter 1, which ...
... body gradually pushing apart earth and sky. Upon his death, the heavenly bodies, thunder, lightning, rain, and the various constituents of the earth's surface were derived from his body. In particular, his eyes became the sun and the ...
... bodies of water). The myth of creation relates how the primordial forces of chaos bore the other gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon who, in turn, created the earth and the heaven. One of. 4See A. Heidel, The Babylonian Genesis, 2nd ...
... body into the sky and placing the other half beneath the earth. After his victory, Marduk put the universe in order ... bodies breaks off at the point where it reports some detailed orders to the moon.) Then, according to the last two ...
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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