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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... known as Pythagorean, which reduces the earth to the status of a planet like the others. This cosmology is often attributed to Philolaus of Crotona, who flourished in the latter half of the fifth century b.c. The Pythagorean system may ...
... known as a philosophical writer, he himself probably felt that the foundation of the Academy in about 387b.c. was his chief work. Aristotle entered the Academy in about 367 b.c. and worked there for twenty years by the side of Plato ...
... known as Ptolemy, who flourished in Alexandria about the middle of the second century a.d. (He was not related to the ruling dynasty of the Ptolemies.) His great treatise, later known as the Almagest,7 largely refines upon the work of ...
... known for his catalog of stellar magnitudes. This work was particularly valuable since its author carefully recorded the magnitudes “as they were seen by his own eyes,” whereas other star catalogs of that period had simply borrowed all ...
... known as the Toledan Tables (1080), of which translations and adaptations were widely distributed in Europe. Western knowledge of astronomy was very much increased by the activity of Alfonso X (1221–1284), “the Wise,” king of Castile ...
Contents
1 | |
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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