| Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900-1975 Contributor(s): Lang, Kenneth R. (Editor), Gingerich, Owen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0674822005 ISBN-13: 9780674822009 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $123.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1979 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Astrophysics - Science | Astronomy - Science | History |
| Dewey: 520.8 |
| LCCN: 78009463 |
| Series: Source Books in the History of the Sciences |
| Physical Information: 1.97" H x 8.94" W x 11.27" (5.38 lbs) 922 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |