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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... Early Views of Stellar Evolution Outline of Solar Activity and Rotation Retrospect: The Nineteenth-Century Advances Chapter 4. The Formative Years: 1910–1940 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The Beginnings of Quantitative Astrophysics The Stellar-Energy ...
... Early Studies of Stellar Rotation Solar and Stellar Hydrodynamics Chapter 5. The Golden Age: 1940–1970 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Nuclear Reactions and Energy Production in Stars Calculation of Stellar Structure A Brief Survey of ...
... early 1960s, and who are convinced that scientific education has become so specialized that scientific literacy is ... earliest historical times to the twentieth century's final years, and to present it in a form that is almost entirely ...
... early 1970s, are recorded in chapter 5. Finally, in chapter 6 we treat the more recent theoretical work, giving precedence to whoever first entered the field or established a new fact. In doing so, we have therefore adopted a method of ...
... Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle / Greek Science after Aristotle, 2 vols. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1970/1973). 3See especially R. K. DeKosky, Knowledge and Cosmos: Development and Decline of the Medieval Perspective (Washington ...
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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