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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... Period The Alexandrian Period From the Dark Age to the Renaissance The Emergence of Modern Astronomy 22 16 12 7 6 4 2 Chapter 2. Three Centuries of Optical Discoveries: 1610–1910 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Distances to the Sun and ...
... period-luminosity relations for RR Lyrae stars and Cepheid variables Periodic variations of δ Cephei Rotational velocities for different classes of stars Otto Struve Ludwig Biermann The solar dynamo Leon Mestel Lyman Spitzer, Jr. The ...
... period from about 3000 b.c. to a.d. 1700, is intended to show that at every stage in history man has had a particular understanding or view of the sun and the stars, and that his picture of these objects has continually evolved over the ...
... period, which was essentially the transition of the medieval to the modern order, saw the beginning of a great burst of critical speculation about nature and with it the emergence of two most promising ideas—the demotion of the earth ...
... PERIOD During the first half of the fifth centuryb.c., both the Ionian and the Italian schools of natural philosophy were progressively overshadowed by Athens, which became for two centuries the intellectual center of the Greek world ...
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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