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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... -Energy Problem The Internal Structure of Stars Pre-1938 Views of Stellar Evolution vii xi 29 30 33 40 43 47 56 59 64 66 67 73 79 81 84 88 91 94 96 100 103 110 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars The Contents.
... Structure A Brief Survey of Stellar Evolution Postgiant Evolution and Stellar Remnants Evolution of Close Binary Stars The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (III) Stellar Rotation and Magnetic Fields The Maturing of Solar Physics ...
... structure was often linked to the ancient Chinese chariot—square with an umbrella canopy. The central pole, corresponding to P'an-ku's body, linked heaven and earth. Of greater interest to the western tradition are the ancient ...
... structures in the world are made by their combination in different proportions. 1.4 THE ATHENIAN PERIOD During the first half of the fifth centuryb.c., both the Ionian and the Italian schools of natural philosophy were progressively ...
... structure and all physical qualities. Through its inherent tensions the pneuma was also thought to constitute a kind of elastic medium for the propagation of physical action in the universe as a whole. The Epicurean and Stoic systems ...
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 |
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