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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... Theory of Variable Stars (I) The Double-Star Problem Early Views of Stellar Evolution Outline of Solar Activity and Rotation Retrospect: The Nineteenth-Century Advances Chapter 4. The Formative Years: 1910–1940 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The ...
... Theory of Variable Stars (II) The Early Studies of Stellar Rotation Solar and Stellar Hydrodynamics Chapter 5. The Golden Age: 1940–1970 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Nuclear Reactions and Energy Production in Stars Calculation of ...
... theory of variable stars, for example, may want to read just section 3.3 and then follow this up with the subsequent developments presented in sections 4.6, 5.6, and 6.5. We therefore suggest that the reader first consult the table of ...
... theory that the shape of the universe resulted from the forceful separation of heaven from earth by a third party was also adopted in Mesopotamia.4 It is recorded in the great Babylonian epic called, from its opening sentence, Enuma ...
... theory. However, about the same time Epicurus established his cosmology, another system of philosophy was founded by Zeno (c. 320–250 b.c.) of Citium in Cyprus, who came to Athens and set up a school in a roofed colonnade called a stoa ...
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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