Source Book in Astronomy, 1900-1950
Author | : Harlow Shapley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
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Author | : Harlow Shapley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harlow Shapley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Science |
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The phenomenal growth of modern astronomy, including the invention of the coronagraph and major developments in telescope design and photographic technique, is unparalleled in many centuries. Theories of relativity, the concept and measurement of the expanding universe, the location of sun and planets far from the center of the Milky Way, the exploration of the interiors of stars, the pulsation theory of Cepheid variation, and investigations of interstellar space have profoundly altered the astronomer's approach. These fundamental discoveries are reported in papers by such eminent scientists as Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur S. Eddington, Henry Norris Russell, Sir James Jeans, Meghnad Saha, Otto Struve, Fred L. Whipple, Bernard Lyot, Jan H. Oort, and George Ellery Hale. The Source Book's 69 contributions represent all fields of astronomy. For example, there are reports on the equivalence of mass and energy (E = mc ) of the special theory of relativity; building the 200-inch Palomar telescope; the scattering of galaxies suggesting a rapidly expanding universe; stellar evolution; and the Big Bang and Steady State theories of the universe's origin.
Author | : Harlow SHAPLEY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Harlow Shapley |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Harlow Shapley |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 9780674821859 |
Author | : Kenneth R. Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
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ISBN | : 9780674822009 |
Author | : Kirtley Fletcher Mather |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674822757 |
Here, find source literature for the most important contributions to the remarkable recent expansion of geological knowledge. Excerpted are 65 articles on topics including the constitution of Earth's interior, earthquakes, radioactive timekeepers, submarine features and deep-sea cores, entrapment of petroleum, and crystal structure.
Author | : Giora Shaviv |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2012-04-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642283853 |
This book describes the origins and evolution of the chemical elements we and the cosmos are made of. The story starts with the discovery of the common elements on Earth and their subsequent discovery in space. How do we learn the composition of the distant stars? How did progress in quantum theory, nuclear physics, spectroscopy, stellar structure and evolution, together with observations of stars, converge to provide an incredibly detailed picture of the universe? How does research in the micro-world explain the macro-world? How does progress in one affect the other, or lack of knowledge in one inhibit progress in the other? In short, Shaviv describes how we discovered the various pieces of the jigsaw that form our present picture of the universe; and how we sometimes put these in the wrong place before finding in the right one. En route we meet some fascinating personalities and learn about heated controversies. Shaviv shows how science lurched from one dogma to the next, time and again shattering much of what had been considered solid knowledge, until eventually a stable understanding arose. Beginning with generally accepted science, the book ends in today’s terra incognita of nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology. A monumental work that will fascinate scientists, philosophers, historians and lay readers alike.
Author | : Jean-Louis Tassoul |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2014-10-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691165920 |
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. The first chapter, which outlines the period from about 3000 B.C. to 1700 A.D., shows that at every stage in history human beings have had a particular understanding of the sun and stars, and that this has continually evolved over the centuries. Next the authors systematically address the immense mass of observations astronomy accumulated from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth. The remaining four chapters examine the history of the field from the physicists perspective, the emphasis being on theoretical work from the mid-1840s to the late 1990s--from thermodynamics to quantum mechanics, from nuclear physics and magnetohydrodynamics to the remarkable advances through to the late 1960s, and finally, to more recent theoretical work. Intended mainly for students and teachers of astronomy, this book will also be a useful reference for practicing astronomers and scientifically curious general readers.
Author | : Jeff Kanipe |
Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2007-01-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0374707227 |
Chasing Hubble's Shadows is an account of the continuing efforts of astronomers to probe the outermost limits of the observable universe. The book derives its title from something the great American astronomer Edwin Hubble once wrote: "Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial." The quest for Hubble's "shadows"—those unimaginably distant, wispy traces of stars and galaxies that formed within the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang—takes us back, in effect, to the beginning of time as we are able to perceive it, when the first discrete stellar objects appeared out of what has lately come to be known as the "cosmic dark age." The information that is being gleaned from these dim sources—chiefly with the aid of Hubble's namesake, the Hubble Space Telescope—promises to yield clues to many cosmic puzzles, including the nature of the mysterious "dark energy" that is now believed to pervade all of space.