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A Source book in astronomy and astrophysics, 1900-1975 / edited by Kenneth R. Lang and Owen Gingerich.
LIBRA QB51 .S67
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Source books in the history of the sciences
- Source books in the history of the sciences.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy.
- Astrophysics.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 922 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1979.
- Summary:
- In this volume readers can rediscover A.S. Eddington's elegant proof of the virial theorem for star clusters, Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky's 1932 proposal for the existence of neutron stars, and Thomas Gold's forecast of collapsed stars as radio sources. They can reread, in the words of the canyons, pulsars, interstellar hydrogen cosmic magnetic fields, quasars, and remnant background radiation of the primeval big bang.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0674822005
- OCLC:
- 3933662
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