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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... Sun and the Stars The Beginnings of Spectroscopy The Sun as a Star Solar Activity and Rotation Intrinsic Properties of ... Sun's Energy The First Solar Models The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (I) The Double-Star Problem Early Views ...
... sun and the stars, from the earliest historical times to the twentieth century's final years, and to present it in a form that is almost entirely devoid of elaborate mathematics. Although intended mainly for the use of students and ...
... sun, its brilliance and heat, and the passing of the seasons are among the central 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 ...
... sun-god, later identified with the sun-god Ra—arose out of the abyss. He created a son, Shu—god of wind or air—and a daughter, Tefnut—goddess of lifegiving dew. Shu and Tefnut begot the twins Geb and Nut. Nut was the sky-goddess. She ...
... sun rose in the sky, she would swallow the stars and give birth to them again at sunset. The theory that the shape of the universe resulted from the forceful separation of heaven from earth by a third party was also adopted in ...
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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