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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Chapter 1. The Age of Myths and Speculations
1.1 Ancient Egypt and the Middle East
1.2 Ionia: The Eastern Greek School
1.3 Southern Italy: The Western Greek School
1.4 The Athenian Period
1.5 The Alexandrian Period
1.6 From the Dark Age to the Renaissance
1.7 The Emergence of Modern Astronomy
Chapter 2. Three Centuries of Optical Discoveries: 1610–1910
2.1 Distances to the Sun and the Stars
2.2 The Beginnings of Spectroscopy
2.3 The Sun as a Star
2.4 Solar Activity and Rotation
2.5 Intrinsic Properties of Stars
2.6 Binary Stars and Stellar Masses
2.7 Variable and Unusual Stars
2.8 The Rise of Astrophysics
Chapter 3. The Time of Pioneers: 1840–1910
3.1 The Puzzle of the Sun’s Energy
3.2 The First Solar Models
3.3 The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (I)
3.4 The Double-Star Problem
3.5 Early Views of Stellar Evolution
3.6 Outline of Solar Activity and Rotation
3.7 Retrospect: The Nineteenth-Century Advances
Chapter 4. The Formative Years: 1910–1940
4.1 The Beginnings of Quantitative Astrophysics
4.2 The Stellar-Energy Problem
4.3 The Internal Structure of Stars
4.4 Pre-1938 Views of Stellar Evolution
4.5 White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
4.6 The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (II)
4.7 The Early Studies of Stellar Rotation
4.8 Solar and Stellar Hydrodynamics
Chapter 5. The Golden Age: 1940–1970
5.1 Nuclear Reactions and Energy Production in Stars
5.2 Calculation of Stellar Structure
5.3 A Brief Survey of Stellar Evolution
5.4 Postgiant Evolution and Stellar Remnants
5.5 Evolution of Close Binary Stars
5.6 The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (III)
5.7 Stellar Rotation and Magnetic Fields
5.8 The Maturing of Solar Physics
Chapter 6. The Era of Specialization: 1970–
6.1 Single, Double, and Multiple Stars
6.2 Early-Type Stars
6.3 The Sun
6.4 Late-Type Stars
6.5 The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (IV)
6.6 Final Stages of Stellar Evolution
Epilogue
Appendix A. Lane’s Fully Convective Gas Spheres
Appendix B. Ritter’s Polytropic Gas Spheres
Appendix C. Ritter’s Theory of Pulsating Stars
Appendix D. Radial and Nonradial Stellar Pulsations
Appendix E. Bohr’s Model of the Atom
Appendix F. Einstein’s Mass-Energy Relation
Appendix G. Three Important Nuclear Reactions
General Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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