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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... Theoretical Physics (Washington, D.C., 1938) Charles Critchfield Carl von Weizsäcker and Hans Bethe Edwin Salpeter Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, William Fowler, and Fred Hoyle Alastair G. W. Cameron Martin Schwarzschild Ernst ...
... pieces appearing in this volume. Figure 2.8 (©1924) and figure 6.5 (©1990) are reprinted with permission from Nature; copyright Macmillan Magazines Limited. Preface This book is the work of two theoretical astrophysicists LIST OF FIGURES ...
... theoretical astrophysicists who have been active in the field since the early 1960s, and who are convinced that ... theoretical work is, we think, the main difference between this text and others. Actually, about half of the book ...
... theoretical work, giving precedence to whoever first entered the field or established a new fact. In doing so, we have therefore adopted a method of presentation directly opposite to that of the typical review paper, which covers only ...
... theoretical base and constrained by metaphysical dogma, physical cosmology stagnated at the dawn of the Christian era until resurrected in the Renaissance. This period, which was essentially the transition of the medieval to the modern ...
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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