Author: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Publisher:
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Category : Astrophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Kenneth Lang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674366671
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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Author: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486604136
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Rigorous examination of relationship between loss of energy, mass, and radius of stars in a steady state. Unabridged, corrected republication of original (1939) edition. "The material is throughout presented with enviable crispness and clarity of expression. The work will undoubtedly become an indispensable handbook for future researchers in the field." — Nature.

Author: Ileana Chinnici
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004387331
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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Winner of the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy In Decoding the Stars, Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). In addition to providing an invaluable account of Secchi’s life and work—something that has been sorely lacking in the English-language scholarship—this biography will be especially stimulating for those interested in the evolution of astrophysics as a discipline from the nineteenth century onward. Despite his eclecticism, reminiscent of the natural philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Secchi was in many ways a very modern scientist: open to innovation and cooperation, and a promoter of popularization and citizen science. Secchi also appears fully inserted in the cultural context of his time: he participated in philosophical and scientific debates, spread new theories and ideas, but also suffered the consequences of political events that marked those years and impacted on his life and activities.

Author: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521257468
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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This book is based on two lectures given in Cambridge by Professor Chandrasckhar to mark the centenary of the birth of Arthur Stanley Eddington. The text describes Eddington's major contributions to astrophysics and to general relativity. The approach is not technical, although it will mainly be of interest to professionals in astronomy, applied mathematics and the history of modern astronomy.

Author: Svein Rosseland
Publisher:
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Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Author: Carl J. Hansen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468402145
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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That trees should have been cut down to provide paper for this book was an ecological afIront. From a book review. - Anthony Blond (in the Spectator, 1983) The first modern text on our subject, Structure and Evolution of the Stars, was published over thirty years ago. In it, Martin Schwarzschild described numerical experiments that successfully reproduced most of the observed properties of the majority of stars seen in the sky. He also set the standard for a lucid description of the physics of stellar interiors. Ten years later, in 1968, John P. Cox's tw~volume monograph Principles of Stellar Structure appeared, as did the more specialized text Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nuc1eosynthesis by Donald D. Clayton-and what a difference ten years had made. The field had matured into the basic form that it remains today. The past twenty-plus years have seen this branch of astrophysics flourish and develop into a fundamental pillar of modern astrophysics that addresses an enormous variety of phenomena. In view of this it might seem foolish to offer another text of finite length and expect it to cover any more than a fraction of what should be discussed to make it a thorough and self-contained reference. Well, it doesn't. Our specific aim is to introduce only the fundamentals of stellar astrophysics. You will find little reference here to black holes, millisecond pulsars, and other "sexy" objects.

Author: Rudolf Kippenhahn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642615236
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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A complete and comprehensive treatment of the physics of the stellar interior and the underlying fundamental processes and parameters. The text presents an overview of the models developed to explain the stability, dynamics and evolution of the stars, and great care is taken to detail the various stages in a star's life. The authors have succeeded in producing a unique text based on their own pioneering work in stellar modeling. Since its publication, this textbook has come to be considered a classic by both readers and teachers in astrophysics. This study edition is intended for students in astronomy and physics alike.

Author: Zdeněk Kopal
Publisher:
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Category : Stars
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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