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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... physicist. The main emphasis in these four chapters is the theoretical work done from the mid-1840s to the late 1990s. Progress in our understanding of the sun and the stars has at all stages been closely linked to new developments in ...
... Physicists: An Anthology (New York: Pica Press, 1975); R. Sorabji, ed., Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987). 11It was not until the 1160s that a poor Latin translation of ...
... physicist who spent most of his life in Italy, also tried to establish the laws of refraction. In his Perspectiva, a huge treatise on optics of the 1270s, Witelo explained the twinkling of stars as due to moving air currents in the ...
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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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