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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... Late-Type Stars The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (IV) Final Stages of Stellar Evolution Epilogue Appendix A. Lane's Fully Convective Gas Spheres Appendix B. Ritter's Polytropic Gas Spheres Appendix C. Ritter's Theory of Pulsating ...
... late 1910s. (For the sake of clarity, more recent observations are reported in subsequent chapters.) After careful consideration, however, we deliberately abstained from describing observational techniques because the subject of ...
... late 1960s and early 1970s, are recorded in chapter 5. Finally, in chapter 6 we treat the more recent theoretical work, giving precedence to whoever first entered the field or established a new fact. In doing so, we have therefore ...
... late into the seventeenth century that the new science of dynamics and the law of gravitation made the age-old geocentric universe obsolete.3 1.1 ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE MIDDLE EAST In the many stories recorded in texts of the third and ...
... late 430s b.c., shortly before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war, he was attacked through his friends; and so Anaxagoras was prosecuted on a charge of impiety for holding THE AGE OF MYTHS AND SPECULATIONS 7 1.4 The Athenian Period.
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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