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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... Centuries of Optical Discoveries: 1610–1910 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Distances to the Sun and the Stars The Beginnings ... Century Advances Chapter 4. The Formative Years: 1910–1940 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The Beginnings of Quantitative ...
... century's final years, and to present it in a form that is almost entirely devoid of elaborate mathematics. Although ... centuries. In chapter 2 we deal in a most systematic way with the immense mass of observations that astronomy has ...
... century b.c. It flourished in Athens during the next two centuries, whence it passed on to Alexandria, which became the center of Hellenistic culture. 1There is a wide literature on these earlier cosmologies. Our own preference goes to ...
... centuries.2 Unfortunately, although that golden age saw great advances in observational astronomy and mathematics ... century that the new science of dynamics and the law of gravitation made the age-old geocentric universe obsolete.3 ...
... century b.c. Indeed, Enuma Elish and Genesis (1:1–2:3) both refer to a watery chaos, which was separated into heaven and earth. However, in Genesis it is the Spirit of God which hovers over the waters and divides the light from the ...
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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