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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... light curve of Mira Ceti Henrietta Swan Leavitt Julius Robert Mayer John James Waterston Lane's density and temperature distributions inside the sun August Ritter William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) Édouard Albert Roche Norman Lockyer Meghnad ...
... light curves for supernovae 240 6.13 Stirling Colgate 242 6.14 The Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar 244 Every reasonable effort has been made to contact the copyright holders for all previously published pieces appearing in this volume ...
... light, and there was light. —Genesis 1:3 For thousands of years men have looked up into the star-filled night sky and have wondered about the nature of the “fixed” stars as opposed to that of the five planets wandering among the ...
... light from the darkness; thus, as is fitting to a monotheistic religion, He alone created the heavens and the earth. Both texts also refer to the existence of light and to the alternation of day and night before the creation of the ...
... light of its own in this cosmological model. Instead, the sun is made of a substance comparable toglass that concentrates rays of fire from elsewhere and transmits them to us. It is not stated, however, whether these rays of fire come ...
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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A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics Jean-Louis Tassoul,Monique Tassoul Limited preview - 2014 |
A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics Jean Louis Tassoul,Monique Tassoul Limited preview - 2004 |