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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... important part of his career began about the year 530 b.c. with his migration to Crotona, a Dorian colony in southern Italy. Political reaction against his brotherhood brought about his retirement to Metapontum, on the Gulf of Taranto ...
... character of the Milky Way as a multitude of faint stars so close together that it has the appearance of a continuous body of light. Important for subsequent astronomical developments were the Athenian Plato (c. 8 CHAPTER 1.
Jean-Louis Tassoul, Monique Tassoul. Important for subsequent astronomical developments were the Athenian Plato (c ... importance of Plato, so far as the development of astronomy is concerned, is to be sought in his appreciation of the ...
... important witness is Archimedes(287–212b.c.) of Syracuse, who made explicitmention of Aristarchus' contribution in his treatise Arenarius, noting that “his hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth ...
Contents
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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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