A Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900-1975 / Kenneth R. Lang, Owen Gingerich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gingerich, Owen, editor.

Lang, Kenneth R., editor.

Series:

Source Books in the History of the Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomy.

Astrophysics.

SCIENCE / General.

SCIENCE / History.

SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.

Local Subjects:

Astronomy.

SCIENCE / General.

SCIENCE / History.

SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (942 p.): Zahlr. Abb.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

General Editor's Preface / Madden, Edward H.

Preface

Contents

CHAPTER I. New Windows on the Universe

On the Application of Interference Methods to Astronomical Measurements / Michelson, Albert Abraham

2. A Test of a New Type of Stellar Interferometer on Sirius / Hanbury Brown, Robert / Twiss, Richard Q.

3. Concerning Observations of Penetrating Radiation on Seven Free Balloon Flights / Hess, Victor Franz

4. The Possibilities of Large Telescopes / Hale, George Ellery

5. A Rapid Coma-Free Mirror System / Schmidt, Bernhard V.

6. On the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Radio Waves / Jansky, Karl G. / Reber, Grote

7. Searching for Interstellar Communications / Cocconi, Giuseppe / Morrison, Philip

8. The Photoelectric Photometry of the Stars / Stebbins, Joel / Johnson, Harold L. / Morgan, William W.

9. The First Results Obtained from Photographs of the Invisible Side of the Moon / Barabashov, N. P. / Lipskii, Yu. N.

10. X-Ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Observations of the Sun / Friedman, Herbert

11. Evidence for X-Rays from Sources outside the Solar System / Giacconi, Riccardo / Gursky, Herbert / Paolini, Frank R. / Rossi, Bruno B.

12. Infrared Observations of the Galactic Center / Becklin, Eric E. / Neugebauer, Gerry

13. Interstellar Deuterium Abundance in the Direction of Beta Centauri / Rogerson, John B. / York, Donald G.

CHAPTER II. The Solar System

14. The Moon's Face: A Study of the Origin of Its Features / Gilbert, Grove Karl

15. Of Atmospheres upon Planets and Satellites / Johnstone Stoney, George

16. On the Probable Existence of a Magnetic Field in Sun-Spots / Ellery Hale, George

17. How Could a Rotating Body such as the Sun Become a Magnet? / Larmor, Joseph

18. Polarization of the Moon and of the Planets Mars and Mercury / Lyot, Bernard

19. The Theory of Continental Drift / Wegener, Alfred

20. The Spectra of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn under High Dispersion / Dunham, Theodore

21. The Mystery of Coronium and the Million-Degree Solar Corona / Grotrian, Walter / Edlén, Bengt

22. Corpuscular Influences upon the Upper Atmosphere / Chapman, Sydney

23. The Origin and Nature of Comets / Oort, Jan H. / Whipple, Fred L.

24. Observations of a Variable Radio Source Associated with the Planet Jupiter / Burke, Bernard F. / Franklin, Kenneth L.

25. Solar Corpuscular Radiation and the Interplanetary Gas / Biermann, Ludwig F.

26. Radiation Observations with Satellite 1958ε / Van Allen, James A. / Mcllwain, Carl E. / Ludwig, George H.

27. The Hot Surface Temperature of Venus / Mayer, Cornell H. / McCullough, Timothy P. / Sloanaker, Russell M. / Avduevsky, V. S. / Marov, M. Ya. / Rozhdestvensky, M. K. / Borodin, N. F. / Kerzhanovich, V. V.

28. Radar Determinations of the Rotations of Venus and Mercury / Dyce, Rolf B. / Pettengill, Gordon H. / Shapiro, Irwin I.

29. Mars as Viewed from Mariner 9 / Masursky, Harold / Smith, Bradford A. / Sagan, Carl / Leovy, Conway Β. / Murray, Bruce C. / McCauley, John F. / Pollack, James B.

30. The Moon after Apollo / El-Baz, Farouk

31. The Encounter Theories of the Origin of the Solar System / Moulton, Forest Ray / Spitzer, Lyman

32. The Nebular Theory of the Origin of the Solar System / Jeans, James H. / Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von

33. A Production of Amino Acids under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions / Miller, Stanley L.

CHAPTER III. Stellar Atmospheres and Stellar Spectra

34. On the Radiation of Stars / Hertzsprung, Ejnar

35. Relations between the Spectra and Other Characteristics of Stars / Russell, Henry Norris

36. Some Spectral Criteria for the Determination of Absolute Stellar Magnitudes / Adams, Walter S. / Kohlschütter, Arnold

37. On the Radiative Equilibrium of Stars / Eddington, Arthur Stanley

38. Ionization in the Solar Chromosphere / Saha, Meghnad

39. The Abundances of the Chemical Elements in Stellar Atmospheres / Payne, Cecilia H. / Russell, Henry Norris

40. On the Rotation of Stars / Ambramovich Shajn, Grigory / Struve, Otto

41. Intensity Measurement of the Fraunhofer Lines in the Wavelength Region 5,150 to 5,270 Å / Minnaert, Marcel / Mulders, Gerard

42. Electron Affinity in Astrophysics / Wildt, Rupert

43. The Quantitative Analysis of the BO-Star τ Scorpii, Part II / Unsöld, Albrecht

CHAPTER IV Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis

44. The Equivalence of Mass and Energy / Einstein, Albert

45. The Internal Constitution of the Stars / Eddington, Arthur Stanley

46. The Mass-Luminosity Relation for Stars / Eddington, Arthur Stanley / Vogt, Heinrich

47. Atomic Synthesis and Stellar Energy I, II / d'Escourt Atkinson, Robert

48. Element Transformation inside Stars. II / Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von

49. Energy Production in Stars / Albrecht Bethe, Hans

50. Nuclear Reactions in Stellar Evolution / Gamow, George

51. Stellar Structure, Source of Energy, and Evolution / Öpik, Ernst

52. Nuclear Reactions in Stars without Hydrogen / Salpeter, Edwin E.

53. Inhomogeneous Stellar Models II: Models with Exhausted Cores in Gravitational Contraction / Sandage, Allan R. / Schwarzschild, Martin

54. Studies of Young Clusters and Stellar Evolution in the Early Phases of Gravitational Contraction / Walker, Merle F. / Hayashi, Chushiro

55. Synthesis of the Elements in Stars / Burbidge, E. Margaret / Burbidge, Geoffrey R / Fowler, William A. / Hoyle, Fred

56. Neutrinos from the Sun / Bahcall, John N. / Davis, Raymond / Harmer, Don S. / Hoffman, Kenneth C.

CHAPTER V. Variable Stars and Dying Stars

57. Periods of Twenty-five Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud / Leavitt, Henrietta S.

58. On the Pulsations of a Gaseous Star and the Problem of the Cepheid Variables / Eddington, Arthur Stanley

59. Τ Tauri Variable Stars / Joy, Alfred H.

60. Binary Stars among Cataclysmic Variables III : Ten Old Novae / Kraft, Robert P.

61. The Discovery of White Dwarf Stars / Adams, Walter S.

62. On Dense Stars / Fowler, Ralph Howard

63. Neutrino Theory of Stellar Collapse / Gamow, George / Schönberg, Mario

64. Discovery of Circularly Polarized Light from a White Dwarf Star / Kemp, James C. / Swedlund, John B. / Landstreet, John D. / Angel, James R. P.

65. On the Gravitational Field of a Point Mass according to the Einsteinian Theory / Schwarzschild, Karl

66. On the Theory of Stars / Davidovich Landau, Lev

67. The Discovery of a Candidate Black Hole / Webster, B. Louise / Murdin, Paul / Bolton, Charles Thomas

68. Novae or Temporary Stars / Hubble, Edwin P.

69. On the Possible Existence of Neutron Stars / Baade, Walter / Zwicky, Fritz / Oppenheimer, J. Robert / Volkoff, George M.

70. Spectra of Supernovae / Minkowski, Rudolph

71. The Crab Nebula / Minkowski, Rudolph

72. On the Nature of the Luminescence of the Crab Nebula / Shklovskii, Iosif S.

73. Energy Emission from a Neutron Star / Pacini, Franco

74. Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source / Hewish, Antony / Bell, S. Joceyln / Pilkington, John D. H. / Frederick Scott, Paul / Collins, Robin Ashley

75. Rotating Neutron Stars as the Origin of the Pulsating Radio Sources / Gold, Thomas

CHAPTER VI. The Distribution of Stars and the Space between Them

76. Investigations of the Spectrum and Orbit of Delta Orionis / Hartmann, Johannes Franz

77. Star Streaming / Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius

78. The Kinetic Energy of a Star Cluster / Eddington, Arthur Stanley

79. The Scale of the Universe / Shapley, Harlow / Curtis, Heber D.

80. First Attempt at a Theory of the Arrangement and Motion of the Sidereal System / Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius

81. Star-Streaming and the Structure of the Stellar System / Lindblad, Bertil

82. Observational Evidence for the Rotation of Our Galaxy / Oort, Jan H. / Joy, Alfred H.

83. On the Dark Nebula NGC 6960 / Wolf, Max

84. The Source of Luminosity of Gaseous Nebulae / Menzel, Donald H. / Zanstra, Herman

85.

The Origin of the Nebular Lines and the Structure of the Planetary Nebulae / Bowen, Ira Sprague

86. The Physical State of Interstellar Hydrogen / Strömgren, Bengt

87. Preliminary Results on the Distances, Dimensions, and Space Distribution of Open Star Clusters / Trumpler, Robert J.

88. The Solid Particles of Interstellar Space / Hulst, Hendrik C. van de

89. The Polarization of Starlight / Hiltner, William Albert / Scoville Hall, John

90. The Temperature of Interstellar Matter / Spitzer, Lyman / Savedoff, Malcolm P.

91. Radio Waves from Space : Origin of Radiowaves / Hulst, Hendrik C. van de

92. The Radio Frequency Detection of Interstellar Hydrogen / Ewen, Harold I. / Purcell, Edward M. / Muller, C. Alex / Oort, Jan H.

93. Some Features of Galactic Structure in the Neighborhood of the Sun / Morgan, William W. / Sharpless, Stewart / Osterbrock, Donald

94. The Galactic System as a Spiral Nebula / Oort, Jan H. / Kerr, Frank J. / Westerhout, Gart

95. Density Waves in Disk Galaxies / Lin, Chia C. / Shu, Frank H.

96. The Discovery of Protostars (?) / Bok, Bart J. / Reilly, Edith F. / Herbig, George H. / Haro, Guillermo / Becklin, Eric E. / Neugebauer, Gerry

97. Radio Observations of OH in the Interstellar Medium / Weinreb, Sander / Barrett, Alan H. / Meeks, M. Littleton / Henry, John C.

98. Galactic Magnetic Fields and the Origin of Cosmic Radiation / Fermi, Enrico

99. Cosmic Rays and Radio Emission from Our Galaxy / Kiepenheuer, Karl Otto / Ginzburg, Yitalii Lazarevich

100. Expanding Stellar Associations and the Origin of the Runaway O and Β Stars / Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, Viktor / Blaauw, Adriaan

CHAPTER VII. Normal Galaxies, Radio Galaxies, and Quasars

101. Novae in Spiral Nebulae / Curtis, Heber D. / Ritchey, George W. / Shapley, Harlow

102. A Spectrographic Investigation of Spiral Nebulae / Slipher, Vesto M.

103. Modern Theories of the Spiral Nebulae / Curtis, Heber D.

104. Cepheids in Spiral Nebulae / Hubble, Edwin P.

105. Extra-Galactic Nebulae / Hubble, Edwin P.

106. A Relation between Distance and Radial Velocity among Extra-Galactic Nebulae / Hubble, Edwin P.

107. On the Masses of Nebulae and of Clusters of Nebulae / Zwicky, Fritz

108. Nuclear Emission in Spiral Nebulae / Seyfert, Carl Κ.

109. The Resolution of Messier 32, NGC 205, and the Central Region of the Andromeda Nebula / Baade, Walter

110. A Revision of the Extra-Galactic Distance Scale / Baade, Walter

111. Redshifts and Magnitudes of Extra-Galactic Nebulae / Humason, Milton L. / Mayall, Nicholas U. / Sandage, Allan R.

112. On the Evolution of Galaxies / Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, Viktor

113. Fluctuations in Cosmic Radiation at Radio Frequencies / Hey, James S. / Parsons, S. J. / Phillips, J. W.

114. Positions of Three Discrete Sources of Galactic Radio-Frequency Radiation / Bolton, John G. / Stanley, Gordon J. / Slee, Ο. B.

115. Cosmic Radiation and Radio Stars / Alfvén, Hannes / Herlofson, Nicolai

116. The Origin of Cosmic Radio Noise / Gold, Thomas

117. Identification of the Radio Sources in Cassiopeia, Cygnus A, and Puppis A / Baade, Walter / Minkowski, Rudolph

118. The Nature of Cosmic Radio Sources / Ryle, Martin

119. First True Radio Star? / Matthews, Thomas A. / Bolton, John G. / Greenstein, Jesse L. / Münch, Guido / Sandage, Allan R.

120. The Discovery of Quasars / Hazard, Cyril / Mackey, M. B. / Shimmins, A. J. / Schmidt, Maarten / Greenstein, Jesse L. / Matthews, Thomas A. / Beverly Oke, John

121. The Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources 3C 48 and 3C 273 / Greenstein, Jesse L. / Schmidt, Maarten

CHAPTER VIII. Relativity and Cosmology

122. Explanation of the Perihelion Motion of Mercury by Means of the General Theory of Relativity / Einstein, Albert

123. A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919 / Dyson, Frank Watson / Eddington, Arthur Stanley / Davidson, Charles

124. Fourth Test of General Relativity: New Radar Result / Shapiro, Irwin I. / Ash, Michael E. / Ingalls, Richard P. / Smith, William B. / Campbell, Donald B. / Dyce, Rolf B. / Jürgens, Raymond F. / Pettengill, Gordon H.

125. On the Curvature of Space / Friedmann, Aleksandr

126. A Homogeneous Universe of Constant Mass and Increasing Radius accounting for the Radial Velocity of Extra-Galactic Nebulae / Lemaître, Georges

127. On the Relation between the Expansion and the Mean Density of the Universe / Einstein, Albert / de Sitter, Wilhelm

128. The Cosmical Constants / Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

129. The Steady-State Theory of the Expanding Universe / Bondi, Hermann / Gold, Thomas

130. The Origin of Chemical Elements / Alpher, Ralph A. / Bethe, Hans / Gamow, George

131. The Evolution and Physics of the Expanding Universe / Alpher, Ralph A. / Herman, Robert C. / Gamow, George

132. A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 MHz / Penzias, Arno A. / Wilson, Robert W.

Indexes

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-36668-9

OCLC:

1013941762