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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... Problem Early Views of Stellar Evolution Outline of Solar Activity and Rotation Retrospect: The Nineteenth-Century Advances Chapter 4. The Formative Years: 1910–1940 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The Beginnings of Quantitative Astrophysics The ...
... problems that have concerned every human society. Undoubtedly, the appearance of a comet or a shooting star, the passing phenomena of clouds and rain and lightning, the Milky Way, the changing phases of the moon and the eclipses—all of ...
... problem is also discussed in Aristotle's treatise De caelo (On the heavens), where it is argued that the warmth and light that proceed from the heavenly bodies are caused byfriction set up by their motion. According to Aristotle ...
... problem during the Middle Ages, prior. 14See B. R. Goldstein, Theory and Observation in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy (London: Variorum Reprints, 1985). 15See E. Grant, Planets, Stars, & Orbs: The Medieval Cosmos, 20 CHAPTER 1.
... problems, they had to explain how the planets could appear visibly different and yet receive their light from the same source. Albert of Saxony coped with this problem by assuming that the solar light can penetrate the diaphanous ...
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 |