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A History of Astronomy from 1890 to the Present

The history of astronomy is, like most history, a multidimensional story, and when writing about a specific period, the author has to decide how to handle all the developments of earlier times in order to set the scene. I have done this by starting most chapters of the book with a summary of astrono...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leverington, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
Subjects:
Astronomy / Observations
Astronomy, Observations And Techniques
Astrophysics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Palomar Mountain and the 200 inch
  • Schmidt Telescopes
  • South Africa
  • KittPeak
  • The Multi-Mirror Telescope
  • Mauna Kea
  • LaPalma
  • The Anglo-Australian Observatory
  • The European Southern Observatory
  • 14 • Tools and Techniques
  • Photography
  • Spectroscopy
  • Photometry
  • Other Tools and Techniques
  • 15 • Radio Astronomy
  • Early Radio Astronomy
  • Radio Telescopes
  • 16 • Space Research
  • Results from Early Sounding Rockets
  • Sputniks and the Formation of NASA
  • The Race to the Moon
  • Early Solar Plasma Research
  • Missions to the Terrestrial Planets
  • Pioneers 10 and 11
  • Voyagers 1 and 2
  • The Halley Intercepts
  • Orbital Observatories
  • 17 • Modern Astronomy in Context
  • 1890–1914
  • 1914–1939
  • 1939–1970
  • 1970 to the Present
  • References and Further Reading
  • Units
  • General Abbreviations Used
  • The Greek Alphabet
  • Name Index
  • The Source of Energy in Stars
  • The MKK and BCD Classification Systems
  • Later Evolutionary Ideas
  • Stellar Populations
  • 8 • Variable and Double Stars
  • Early Work
  • Short Period Variables
  • Long Period Variables
  • Irregular Variables
  • Flare Stars
  • Eclipsing Binaries
  • Non-Eclipsing Binaries
  • 9 • Young Stars, Old Stars and Stellar Explosions
  • Young Stars
  • Pulsars
  • Novae and Supernovae
  • Black Holes
  • 10 • The Milky Way
  • Early Work
  • Dimensions and Structure
  • The Interstellar Medium
  • Nebulae in the Milky Way
  • 11 • Galaxies
  • The Nature and Distance of Spiral Nebulae
  • Red Shifts
  • Quasars
  • Dwarf Galaxies
  • Galactic Evolution
  • 12 • Cosmology
  • Early Cosmological Theories
  • Revisions to the Hubble Constant
  • The Microwave Background Radiation
  • The Missing Mass
  • 13 • Optical Telescopes and Observatories
  • Early Telescopes
  • EarlyObservatories
  • The Transition to Reflectors
  • The Harvard College Observatory
  • Mount Wilson
  • 1 • The Sun
  • Early Work
  • The Temperature of the Sun and its Generation of Energy
  • The Corona
  • Sunspots and the Disturbed Sun
  • The Quiet Sun and the Interplanetary Plasma
  • The Solar Constant
  • The Solar Spectrum
  • 2 • The Moon
  • Early Work
  • The Surface
  • The Origin and Subsequent History of the Moon
  • 3 • The Origin of the Solar System
  • Early Theories
  • Collisions and Close Encounters
  • Condensing Nebulae Re-examined
  • 4 • The Terrestrial Planets
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • The Earth
  • Mars
  • 5 • The Gas Giants
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Neptune
  • 6 • Small Bodies of the Solar System
  • Pluto
  • The Asteroids
  • Comets
  • Meteorites
  • 7 • Stellar Evolution and Stellar Structures
  • Early Work
  • The Luminosity of Stars
  • The Harvard Classification
  • Initial Evolutionary Ideas
  • Ionisation and the Abundance of Hydrogen in Stellar Atmospheres
  • The Surface Temperature of Stars
  • The Internal Structure of Stars

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