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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... remained the fundamental postulate of all astronomy up to the beginning of modern science. Highly speculative theories about the nature of the heavenly bodies were also proposed by Xenophanes (c. 570–478 b.c.) of Colophon and Heraclitus ...
... remained virtually unchanged until the Renaissance. Another important advance in astronomy was made when Aristarchus attempted to measure the relative distances of the sun and moon from the earth, and their sizes relative to each other ...
... remained the standard ones for about two centuries. Another important observatory was built at Maragha in northwest Iran by the Mongol prince Hulagu Khan (c. 1217–1265), a grandson of Genghis Khan (1162–1227). Its main contribution was ...
... remained an important center of Arab and Hebrew culture, where a true spirit of collaboration lingered on among Jewish, Christian, and Moorish scholars. The most important work produced by these astronomers was the volume of ...
... remained unchallenged until the 1510s, when the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) revived Aristarchus' heliocentric hypothesis. Although few considered the problem during the Middle Ages, prior. 14See B. R. Goldstein ...
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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