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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... Fields The Maturing of Solar Physics Chapter 6. The Era of Specialization: 1970– 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Single, Double, and Multiple Stars Early-Type Stars The Sun Late-Type Stars The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (IV) Final ...
... field since the early 1960s, and who are convinced that scientific education has become so specialized that scientific literacy is slowly disappearing among scientists. An attempt is made in this book, therefore, to outline the history ...
... field or established a new fact. In doing so, we have therefore adopted a method of presentation directly opposite to that of the typical review paper, which covers only the most recent contributions. This and other trends in ...
... field the leading names are those of Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) and Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), the former relying upon the naked eye for his measurements, the latter on his recently built refracting telescope. In 1572 Tycho observed a ...
... field in the form of waves (see section 6.6). These waves propagate with the speed of light. Action at a distance is therefore avoided, and causality is restored. 1See A. Van Helden, Measuring the Universe (Chicago: University of 26 ...
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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