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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... producing what we see as the stars. The hoops belonging to the sun, the moon, and the stars were probably assumed to be concentric with the earth. The sun is thus a rotating hoop full of fire, which lets its fire shine out through an ...
... producing flames. The sun and the moon are also bowl shaped, like the stars, and are thus similarly lit up. 1.3 SOUTHERN ITALY: THE WESTERN GREEK SCHOOL Much more remarkable developments were to follow in the great colonies of southern ...
... produce heat in the place where we live because it moves swiftly and is not so far off as the stars. In his own terms: “For a motion that is to have this effect must be rapid and near, and that of the stars is rapid but distant, while ...
... produce a physical system that would fulfill the requirements of both the mathematical theory expounded in the Almagest and his philosophy of nature.8 The basic idea was to assume that the planets were carried around by a sequence of ...
... produced by these astronomers was the volume of astronomical tables known as the Toledan Tables (1080), of which translations and adaptations were widely distributed in Europe. Western knowledge of astronomy was very much increased by ...
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 |
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