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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... Diagram Ejnar Hertzsprung The mass-luminosity relation The visual light curve of Mira Ceti Henrietta Swan Leavitt Julius Robert Mayer John James Waterston Lane's density and temperature distributions inside the sun August Ritter William ...
... diagrams for several clusters Ralph Howard Fowler Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Mass-radius relation for completely ... diagram Chushiro Hayashi Iosif Shklovskii Thomas Gold Chandrasekhar with Igor Novikov and Yakov Zeldovich The binary ...
... Diagrams of the Universe (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1977). By permission of the Huntington Library. If so, then, by what mechanism do the sun, stars, and planets shine? This problem is also discussed in Aristotle's ...
... Diagrams of the Universe (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1977). By permission of the Huntington Library. Moses Maimonides (1135–1204) embraces different patterns of interpretation of heavenly. Figure 1.6 A Christian view of the ...
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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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