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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... Relation Appendix G. Three Important Nuclear Reactions General Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects 114 120 123 128 133 135 143 147 156 166 173 177 183 192 193 202 210 220 228 234 247 250 251 252 254 257 260 263 265 269 277 1.1 ...
... relation The visual light curve of Mira Ceti Henrietta Swan Leavitt Julius Robert Mayer John James Waterston Lane's density and temperature distributions inside the sun August Ritter William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) Édouard Albert Roche ...
... relation for completely degenerate white dwarfs Conference on Novae, Supernovae, and White Dwarfs (Paris, 1939) ... relations for RR Lyrae stars and Cepheid variables Periodic variations of δ Cephei Rotational velocities for different ...
... relation to the motion of the inner planets is found in the works of Theon of Smyrna, who flourished in the early part of the second century a.d.5 Throughout antiquity, natural philosophers were also divided on many other aspects of ...
... relation that exists between the angles a, b, c, and d. In the triangle moon-earth-sun, one has a + b = c + d, that is, the sun's parallax plus the moon's parallax is equal to the sun's angular radius plus the semidiameter of the ...
Contents
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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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