| Description |
xv, 423 pages : illustrations |
| Series |
Source book series |
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Source book series.
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| Contents |
Instrumentation -- The 200-inch reflector on Mount Palomar / George Ellery Hale -- A new type of mirror system / Bernhardt Schmidt -- Invention of the coronagraph / Berhard Lyot -- A stratospheric solar observatory / Meghnad Saha -- The beginning of radio astronomy / Grote Reber -- The Sun -- The magnetic field in sunspots / George Ellery Hale -- A classification of solar prominences / Edison Pettit -- The mystery of coronium solved / Bengt Edlen -- Solar spicules / Walter Orr Roberts -- The planetary system -- Theory of the Moon / Ernest W. Brown -- Trowbridge's classical work on meteor trains / Charles P. Olivier -- An interim report on an international research project: the wandering of the North Pole / H. Kimura -- Abstract: lunar radiation and temperatures / Edison Pettit and Seth B. Nicholson -- The Discovery of Pluto / Clyde W. Tombaugh -- The Tunguska meteorite / L. A. Kulik -- Meteors in the measurement of the upper atmosphere / Fred L. Whipple -- The solar parallax: a coordinated international measure of a fundamental constant / Harold Spencer-Jones -- Planetary motions and the electronic calculator / G. M. Clemence, Dirk Brouwer, and W. J. Eckert -- The positions and motions of the stars -- Discovery of the two star streams / J. C. Kapteyn -- Historical notes on astro-photography of precision / Frank Schlesinger -- On the rotation of the stars / G. Shajn and O. Struve -- A great catalogue of stellar positions and proper motions / Ralph E. Wilson -- Expanding stellar associations / V. A. Ambartsumian -- The galaxies as anchors for stellar proper motions / William Hammond Wright -- The spectra of stars and nebulai -- Pioneering in the classification of stellar spectra / Annie J. Cannon -- Spectral peculiarities related to stellar luminosity / Walter S. Adams and Arnold Kohlschütter -- Spectroscopic parallaxes / Walter S. Adams -- Solution of the mystery of the nebulium / Ira S. Bowen -- The two-dimensional classification of stellar spectra / William W. Morgan, Philip C. Keenan, and Edith Kellman -- White dwarfs and degeneracy / W. J. Luyten -- Iron in the stars / Paul W. Merrill -- Variable stars -- Discovery of the period-magnitude relation / Henrietta S. Leavitt -- The pulsation hypothesis / Harlow Shapely -- Radial velocities of cepheid variable stars / Alfred H. Joy -- Sic-color light curves of Delta Cephei and Polaris / Joel Stebbins -- Some unsolved problems in the theory of eclipsing binaries / Zdenek Kopal -- Stellar structure -- The diameter of Betelguex / Albert A. Michelson and Francis G. Pease -- The interior of a star / Arthur Stanley Eddington -- The empirical mass-luminosity relation / Gerald P. Kuiper -- Stellar energy and Bethe's carbon cycle / Henry Norris Russell -- Turbulence: introduction to a physical theory of astronomical interest / S. Chandrasekhar -- Spectrum-luminosity relationships -- Giants and dwarfs / Ejnar Hertzsprung -- The spectrum-luminosity diagram / Henry Norris Russell -- Spectral types in open clusters / Robert J. Trumpler -- Types of star population / Walter Baade -- Interstellar phenomena -- The discovery of interstellar calcium / J. F. Hartmann -- Wolf's method of measuring dark nebulae / Bart J. Bok -- Prediction of 21-centimeter interstellar radio signals / H. C. van de Hulst -- The polarization of star light by interstellar particles / W. A. Hiltner and John S. Hall -- Steller evolution -- Concerning protostars / Bart J. Bok -- The formation of stars / Lyman Spitzer, Jr. -- Galaxies -- From heliocentric to galactocentric / Harlow Shapely -- Confirming Lindblad's hypothesis of the rotation of the galaxy / Jan H. Oort -- A relation between distance and radial velocity among extra-galactic nebulae / Edwin Hubble -- The velocity-distance relation among extra-galactic nebulae / Edwin Hubble and Milton L. Humason -- The large apparent velocities of extra-galactic nebulae / Milton L. Humason -- Relativity and cosmology -- On the transformation of matter into energy / J. H. Jeans -- The E = Mc2 equation / Albert Einstein -- Cosmogonical hypothesis / Henri Poincaré -- Testing the theory of relativity / W. W. Campbell and R. Trumpler -- The end of the world / A. S. Eddington -- The beginning of the world / Georges Lemaître -- From Newton to Einstein / Willem de Sitter -- Remarks on the General Theory of Relativity / Albert Einstein -- The primeval atom / Georges Lemaître -- The perfect cosmological principle / H. Bondi and T. Gold -- Surveys of astrophysical progress -- Introduction to theoretical astrophysics / Svein Rosseland -- The chemistry of the cosmos / Rupert Wildt -- Fifty years of progress in astrophysics / Otto Struve |
| Notes |
"Identification and sources": p. [411]-417 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [411]-417 |
| Subject |
Astronomy.
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| Author |
Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
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| LC no. |
60013294 |
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