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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 48
... planets wandering among the constellations of the zodiac. The daily course of the sun, its brilliance and heat, and the passing of the seasons are among the central problems that have concerned every human society. Undoubtedly, the ...
... planets from the “fixed” stars in respect of their irregular movements; he also extended Anaximander's ideas on cosmology. Thales thought the earth to be a circular or cylindrical disk that floated on the cosmic ocean, like a log or a ...
... planets shine are nearer to the earth than that of the moon. Despite some obvious shortcomings, this cosmological system represents a definite improvement over previous ones since, instead of moving laterally round the earth, the ...
... planet like the others. This cosmology is often attributed to Philolaus of Crotona, who flourished in the latter half ... planets, the sphere of the fixed stars. Philolaus explained that the Greeks had never seen the central fire nor the ...
... planets and stars revolving around us. Obviously, this is an indefinitely expanding universe since there is no spatial limit set to the expansion of the ripples from the initial vortex. Parenthetically note that another cosmogony ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
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 |