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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... forces of chaos bore the other gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon who, in turn, created the earth and the heaven. One of. 4See A. Heidel, The Babylonian Genesis, 2nd edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951). Figure 1.4 The ...
... forces of chaos. After an epic combat, Marduk pierced Tiamat's heart with an arrow and smashed her skull with his mace. Then he completed creation, making half of her dead body into the sky and placing the other half beneath the earth ...
... force that moves the celestial bodies, including the earth, on their circular paths. The outer boundary of the sphere is an envelope of fire, which is called Olympus; below this is the universe. In the universe there revolve in circles ...
... force—later called the “impetus”—which was communicated to the projectile by the mover. This new idea about forced motion had a considerable impact on physical doctrine in the Middle Ages—both in the Muslim world and in the Latin West ...
... force that causes a stone to fall on earth is also that which keeps the planets in their orbits. This is expressed in Pope's famous epigram: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in Night, God said, Let Newton be, and all was light, which ...
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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