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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... appearing in this volume. Figure 2.8 (©1924) and figure 6.5 (©1990) are reprinted with permission from Nature; copyright Macmillan Magazines Limited. Preface This book is the work of two theoretical astrophysicists LIST OF FIGURES ix.
... figure 1.1). To the Egyptians, the sky was a heavenly Nile, along which the barque of the sun-god Ra sailed from east to west each day. (The sun was occasionally thrown into an eclipse when his barque was attacked by a great serpent ...
Jean-Louis Tassoul, Monique Tassoul. Figure 1.1 The Egyptian sun-god Ra traveling in his barque across the arc of the sky formed by the sky-goddess Nut (figure adorned with stars). She is prevented from falling upon the earth-god Geb ( ...
... figure 1.2). In his astronomy, Aristotle builds upon the mathematical results of Eudoxus and Callippus in their use of concentric spheres centered on the earth. However, what were for these astronomers mere mathematical devices of ...
... figure 1.3 the points O, S, and M denote, respectively, the observer and the centers of the sun and moon, the moon appears to the observer half full when the angle OMS is a right angle. When this is the case, the observer can measure ...
Contents
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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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