Revolutionaries of the cosmos: the astro-physicists
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| adam_text | REVOLUTIONARIES OF THE COSMOS THE ASTRO-PHYSICISTS I.S. GLASS SOUTH
AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: TALENT AND OPPORTUNITY 1 1.1 THE ASTRO-PHYSICISTS 1 1.2
SETTING THE SCENE 3 1.3 THE TALENTED INDIVIDUAL 4 1.4 MOTIVATION L 5 1.5
THE NEED FOR SUPPORT 6 1.6 LIFETIMES IN SCIENCE 6 REFERENCES 7 GALILEO:
SEEING AND BELIEVING 8 2.1 EARLY YEARS 9 2.2 STUDIES IN PISA 9 2.3
FLORENCE AND SIENA 11 2.4 PROFESSOR AT PISA 1589-1592 11 2.5 PADUA
1592-1610 12 2.6 THE TELESCOPE 15- 2.7 THE NATURE OF THE MOON 16 2.8
RETURN TO FLORENCE 17 2.9 MATURE SCIENTIST 19 2.10 SUNSPOTS 21 2.11
BEGINNINGS OF CLERICAL OPPOSITION 23 2.12 SCIENCE AND SCRIPTURE 24 2.13
TOWARDS THE PTOLEMAIC-COPERNICAN DIALOGUE I 25 2.14 PUBLICATION 29
2.15 PRIVATE LIFE 30 2.16 TRIAL*A VEHEMENT SUSPICION OF HERESY 31 2.17
AFTERMATH OF THE TRIAL 33 2.18 DISCOURSES: TWO NEW SCIENCES 34 2.19
LAST YEARS 35 REFERENCES 38 ISAAC NEWTON: RATIONALISING THE UNIVERSE 40
3.1 TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 43 3.2 INTELLECTUAL AWAKENING 44 3.3
DISCOVERIES DURING THE PLAGUE YEARS 46 3.4 BEGINNINGS OF RECOGNITION 48
3.5 LUCASIAN PROFESSOR 49 3.6 THE FIRST REFLECTING TELESCOPE 50 3.7 THE
ODDEST, IF NOT THE MOST CONSIDERABLE, DETECTION 52 3.8 LEIBNIZ AND THE
EARLY PAPERS OF NEWTON 55 IX CONTENTS 3.9 NEWTON AS HERETIC 56 3.10
PRINCIPIA 58 3.11 FAME 61 3.12 UNIVERSITY POLITICIAN 62 3.13 CHANGE OF
CHARACTER 62 3.14 FATIO 63 3.15 NERVOUS BREAKDOWN 64 3.16 OPTICKS 65
3.17 WARDEN OF THE MINT 66 3.18 PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 67 3.19
RELATIONS WITH FLAMSTEED 69 3.20 KNIGHTHOOD 70 3.21 DISPUTE WITH LEIBNIZ
71 3.22 OLD AGE 72 REFERENCES 75 WILLIAM HERSCHEL: SURVEYING THE HEAVENS
76 4.1 THE HERSCHEL FAMILY 76 4.2 HANOVER YEARS 77 4.3 WANDERING
MUSICIAN 78 4.4 LIFE IN BATH 80 4.5 CRAZY ABOUT TELESCOPES 82 4.6
RECOGNITION AS AN ASTRONOMER 85 4.7 SWEEPING THE SKY 86 4.8 DISCOVERY OF
URANUS 89 4.9 KING GEORGE III 92 4.10 MOTION OF THE SUN 94 4.11
CONSTRUCTION OF THE HEAVENS 95 4.12 MINOR DISCOVERIES 96 4.13 DATCHET,
WINDSOR AND THE 40-FT TELESCOPE 9,7 4.14 TELESCOPE BUSINESS 99 4.15
MARRIAGE 102 4.16 SOCIAL LIFE 104 4.17 LATER DISCOVERIES AND INTERESTS
108 4.18 DOUBTFUL SPECULATIONS 109 4.19 ASTEROIDS AND THE CELESTIAL
POLICE 110 4.20 JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL 110 4.21 LAST YEARS OF
CAROLINE 113 REFERENCES 114 WILLIAM HUGGINS: CELESTIAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
117 5.1 EARLY YEARS 118 5.2 SHOPKEEPER 119 5.3 INDEPENDENCE 120 5.4 A
SPRING OF WATER IN A DRY AND THIRSTY LAND 121 CONTENTS XI 5.5 THE
RIDDLE OF THE NEBULAE 128 5.6 NOVA T CRB 130 5.7 COMETS 131 5.8
FRUSTRATING INTERLUDE 131 5.9 RADIAL MOTION OF THE STARS 132 5.10 NEW
FACILITIES 133 5.11 WITNESS AT A SEANCE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 137 5.12 AN
ABLE AND ENTHUSIASTIC ASSISTANT ... 138 5.13 A VICTORIAN HOUSEHOLD 139
5.14 ADVENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECTRA 141 5.15 FURTHER SPECTROSCOPIC
FORAYS 143 5.16 THE MYSTERY OF NEBULIUM 143 5.17 EMINENT VICTORIAN 144
5.18 MARGARET HUGGINS AND EDUCATION 146 5.19 A PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE 149
5.20 LAST YEARS OF WILLIAM ... 150 5.21 ... AND OF MARGARET 151
REFERENCES 153 GEORGE ELLERY HALE: PROVIDING THE TOOLS 156 6.1 MIT
STUDENT 159 6.2 MEETING WITH ROWLAND 160 6.3 INVENTION OF THE
SPECTROHELIOGRAPH 161 6.4 MARRIAGE AND HONEYMOON 163 6.5 THE KENWOOD
OBSERVATORY 163 6.6 DISCOVERIES AT KENWOOD 165 6.7 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
167 6.8 YERKES*THE LARGEST REFRACTING TELESCOPE EVER MADE 167 6.9 THE
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL V 169 6.10 YERKES OBSERVATORY COMPLETED 169 6.11
THE 60-IN. MIRROR 171 6.12 FIRST ATTEMPT ON CARNEGIE 172 6.13 EARLY DAYS
ON MOUNT WILSON 173 6.14 SUCCESS WITH CARNEGIE 175 6.15 THE SNOW
TELESCOPE 176 6.16 THE FIRST SOLAR TOWER 178 6.17 THE 60-IN. REFLECTOR
179 6.18 HALE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CALTECH 179 6.19 THE 100-IN. HOOKER
TELESCOPE 181 6.20 MENTAL ILLNESS 182 6.21 LIFE AND WORK ON MOUNT WILSON
185 6.22 WORLD WAR 187 6.23 COMPLETION OF THE 100-IN. 188 6.24 THE YEARS
AS A RECLUSE 190 CONTENTS 6.25 THE HALE SOLAR OBSERVATORY 191 6.26
CONTINUED PUBLIC SERVICE 194 6.27 THE 200-IN. PALOMAR REFLECTOR 194 6.28
SLOW DECLINE 196 REFERENCES 197 ARTHUR EDDINGTON: INSIDE THE STARS 198
7.1 TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 199 7.2 ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY;
KAPTEYN S STAR DRIFTS 200 7.3 PROFESSOR AT CAMBRIDGE 201 7.4 STELLAR
MOVEMENTS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE 202 7.5 THE
HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL DIAGRAM 204 7.6 EDDINGTON S PHYSICAL INTUITION 205
7.7 PROPHET OF RELATIVITY 206 7.8 CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR 209 .7.9 THE
SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1919 210 7.10 AFTERMATH OF THE ECLIPSE 213 7.11
INFLUENCE ON LEMAITRE 215 7.12 THE INTERNAL CONSTITUTION OF THE STARS
216 7.13 THE MASS-LUMINOSITY RELATION 218 7.14 RECREATIONS 219 7.15
SURENESS OR COCKSURENESS? 221 7.16 THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE 223 7.17 THE
STRANGE CASE OF CHANDRASEKHAR AND SIRIUS B 224 7.18 EDDINGTON S WILDER
SPECULATIONS 227 7.19 RECOLLECTIONS OF EDDINGTON S STUDENTS 229 7.20
FRUSTRATIONS 231 7.21 FINAL YEAR, ILLNESS, AND DEATH 232 REFERENCES 233
HARLOW SHAPLEY: DENNING OUR GALAXY 235 8.1 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 237
8.2 PRINCETON AND HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL 239 8.3 STANDARD CANDLES AND
THE DISTANCES OF THE STARS 241 8.4 FIRST VISIT TO HARVARD 243 8.5 ON TO
MOUNT WILSON 243 8.6 THE CEPHEID AND RR LYRAE STANDARD CANDLES 244 8.7
THE DISTANCES OF THE GLOBULAR CLUSTERS 245 8.8 THE CENTRE OF THE MILKY
WAY 246 8.9 A NEAR MISS 247 8.10 THE GREAT DEBATE 248 8.11 DIRECTOR OF
HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY 250 8.12 THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL 253
8.13 SHAPLEY S UNIVERSE 255 8.14 EXPLORING THE SOUTHERN SKY 257
CONTENTS XIII 8.15 THE DISTRIBUTION OF GALAXIES IN SPACE 257 8.16
DIVERSIONS FROM ASTRONOMY 259 8.17 THE SCULPTOR AND FORNAX DWARF
GALAXIES 259 8.18 THE SOCIABLE DIRECTOR 260 8.19 OTHER ACTIVITIES 261
8.20 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS -* 261 8.21 LOSING THE INITIATIVE 262 8.22
POST-WAR SOCIAL CONCERNS 264 8.23 THE COMMUNIST IN THE STATE
DEPARTMENT 264 8.24 RETIREMENT 265 REFERENCES 266 9 EDWIN HUBBLE:
JOURNEYING TO THE EDGE 268 9.1 BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS 268 9.2 UNIVERSITY
OF CHICAGO 270 9.3 RHODES SCHOLAR 271 9.4 BACK TO THE UNITED STATES 273
9.5 GRADUATE STUDENT AT YERKES 273 9.6 MAJOR HUBBLE 275 9.7 MOUNT WILSON
276 9.8 THE DISTANCES OF THE GALAXIES 279- 9.9 MARRIAGE 280 9.10 THE
TUNING FORK DIAGRAM 282 9.11 THE HUBBIES AT HOME 284 9.12 THE
RECESSION OF THE NEBULAE 285 9.13 DISTANCE INDICATORS 289 9.14 INNER
DOUBTS 290 9.15 THE HUBBLE AND VAN MAANEN PROBLEM ;290 9.16 CELEBRITY
STATUS 291 9.17 COUNTING THE GALAXIES 292 9.18 THE REALM OF THE
NEBULAE 292 9.19 SECOND WORLD WAR 294 9.20 THE POST-WAR PERIOD 295 9.21
LAST YEARS 297 REFERENCES * 300 INDEX 302
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REVOLUTIONARIES OF THE COSMOS THE ASTRO-PHYSICISTS I.S. GLASS SOUTH
AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: TALENT AND OPPORTUNITY 1 1.1 THE ASTRO-PHYSICISTS 1 1.2
SETTING THE SCENE 3 1.3 THE TALENTED INDIVIDUAL 4 1.4 MOTIVATION L 5 1.5
THE NEED FOR SUPPORT 6 1.6 LIFETIMES IN SCIENCE 6 REFERENCES 7 GALILEO:
SEEING AND BELIEVING 8 2.1 EARLY YEARS 9 2.2 STUDIES IN PISA 9 2.3
FLORENCE AND SIENA 11 2.4 PROFESSOR AT PISA 1589-1592 11 2.5 PADUA
1592-1610 12 2.6 THE TELESCOPE 15- 2.7 THE NATURE OF THE MOON 16 2.8
RETURN TO FLORENCE 17 2.9 MATURE SCIENTIST 19 2.10 SUNSPOTS 21 2.11
BEGINNINGS OF CLERICAL OPPOSITION 23 2.12 SCIENCE AND SCRIPTURE 24 2.13
TOWARDS THE PTOLEMAIC-COPERNICAN 'DIALOGUE' I 25 2.14 PUBLICATION \ 29
2.15 PRIVATE LIFE 30 2.16 TRIAL*A 'VEHEMENT SUSPICION OF HERESY' 31 2.17
AFTERMATH OF THE TRIAL 33 2.18 DISCOURSES: 'TWO NEW SCIENCES' 34 2.19
LAST YEARS 35 REFERENCES 38 ISAAC NEWTON: RATIONALISING THE UNIVERSE 40
3.1 TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 43 3.2 INTELLECTUAL AWAKENING 44 3.3
DISCOVERIES DURING THE PLAGUE YEARS 46 3.4 BEGINNINGS OF RECOGNITION 48
3.5 LUCASIAN PROFESSOR 49 3.6 THE FIRST REFLECTING TELESCOPE 50 3.7 'THE
ODDEST, IF NOT THE MOST CONSIDERABLE, DETECTION' 52 3.8 LEIBNIZ AND THE
EARLY PAPERS OF NEWTON 55 IX CONTENTS 3.9 NEWTON AS HERETIC 56 3.10
PRINCIPIA 58 3.11 FAME 61 3.12 UNIVERSITY POLITICIAN 62 3.13 CHANGE OF
CHARACTER 62 3.14 FATIO 63 3.15 NERVOUS BREAKDOWN 64 3.16 OPTICKS 65
3.17 WARDEN OF THE MINT 66 3.18 PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 67 3.19
RELATIONS WITH FLAMSTEED 69 3.20 KNIGHTHOOD 70 3.21 DISPUTE WITH LEIBNIZ
71 3.22 OLD AGE 72 REFERENCES 75 WILLIAM HERSCHEL: SURVEYING THE HEAVENS
76 4.1' THE HERSCHEL FAMILY 76 4.2 HANOVER YEARS 77 4.3 WANDERING
MUSICIAN 78 4.4 LIFE IN BATH 80 4.5 CRAZY ABOUT TELESCOPES 82 4.6
RECOGNITION AS AN ASTRONOMER 85 4.7 SWEEPING THE SKY 86 4.8 DISCOVERY OF
URANUS 89 4.9 KING GEORGE III 92 4.10 MOTION OF THE SUN 94 4.11
CONSTRUCTION OF THE HEAVENS 95 4.12 MINOR DISCOVERIES 96 4.13 DATCHET,
WINDSOR AND THE 40-FT TELESCOPE 9,7 4.14 TELESCOPE BUSINESS 99 4.15
MARRIAGE 102 4.16 SOCIAL LIFE 104 4.17 LATER DISCOVERIES AND INTERESTS
108 4.18 DOUBTFUL SPECULATIONS 109 4.19 ASTEROIDS AND THE CELESTIAL
POLICE 110 4.20 JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL 110 4.21 LAST YEARS OF
CAROLINE 113 REFERENCES 114 WILLIAM HUGGINS: CELESTIAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
117 5.1 EARLY YEARS 118 5.2 SHOPKEEPER 119 5.3 INDEPENDENCE 120 5.4 'A
SPRING OF WATER IN A DRY AND THIRSTY LAND' 121 CONTENTS XI 5.5 THE
'RIDDLE OF THE NEBULAE' 128 5.6 NOVA T CRB 130 5.7 COMETS " 131 5.8
FRUSTRATING INTERLUDE 131 5.9 RADIAL MOTION OF THE STARS 132 5.10 NEW
FACILITIES 133 5.11 WITNESS AT A SEANCE AND OTHER ACTIVITIES 137 5.12 AN
ABLE AND ENTHUSIASTIC ASSISTANT '. 138 5.13 A VICTORIAN HOUSEHOLD 139
5.14 ADVENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECTRA 141 5.15' FURTHER SPECTROSCOPIC
FORAYS 143 5.16 THE MYSTERY OF 'NEBULIUM' 143 5.17 EMINENT VICTORIAN 144
5.18 MARGARET HUGGINS AND EDUCATION 146 5.19 A PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE 149
5.20 LAST YEARS OF WILLIAM . 150 5.21 . AND OF MARGARET 151
REFERENCES 153 GEORGE ELLERY HALE: PROVIDING THE TOOLS 156 6.1 MIT
STUDENT 159" 6.2 MEETING WITH ROWLAND 160 6.3 INVENTION OF THE
SPECTROHELIOGRAPH 161 6.4 MARRIAGE AND HONEYMOON 163 6.5 THE KENWOOD
OBSERVATORY 163 6.6 DISCOVERIES AT KENWOOD 165 6.7 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
167 6.8 YERKES*THE LARGEST REFRACTING TELESCOPE EVER MADE 167 6.9 THE
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL V 169 6.10 YERKES OBSERVATORY COMPLETED 169 6.11
THE 60-IN. MIRROR 171 6.12 FIRST ATTEMPT ON CARNEGIE 172 6.13 EARLY DAYS
ON MOUNT WILSON 173 6.14 SUCCESS WITH CARNEGIE 175 6.15 THE SNOW
TELESCOPE 176 6.16 THE FIRST SOLAR TOWER 178 6.17 THE 60-IN. REFLECTOR
179 6.18 HALE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CALTECH 179 6.19 THE 100-IN. HOOKER
TELESCOPE 181 6.20 MENTAL ILLNESS 182 6.21 LIFE AND WORK ON MOUNT WILSON
185 6.22 WORLD WAR 187 6.23 COMPLETION OF THE 100-IN. 188 6.24 THE YEARS
AS A RECLUSE 190 CONTENTS 6.25 THE HALE SOLAR OBSERVATORY 191 6.26
CONTINUED PUBLIC SERVICE 194 6.27 THE 200-IN. PALOMAR REFLECTOR 194 6.28
SLOW DECLINE 196 REFERENCES 197 ARTHUR EDDINGTON: INSIDE THE STARS 198
7.1 TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 199 7.2 ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY;
KAPTEYN'S 'STAR DRIFTS' 200 7.3 PROFESSOR AT CAMBRIDGE 201 7.4 'STELLAR
MOVEMENTS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE' 202 7.5 THE
HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL DIAGRAM 204 7.6 EDDINGTON'S 'PHYSICAL INTUITION' 205
7.7 PROPHET OF RELATIVITY 206 7.8 CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR 209 .7.9 THE
SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1919 210 7.10 AFTERMATH OF THE ECLIPSE 213 7.11
INFLUENCE ON LEMAITRE 215 7.12 THE INTERNAL CONSTITUTION OF THE STARS
216 7.13 THE MASS-LUMINOSITY RELATION 218 7.14 RECREATIONS 219 7.15
SURENESS OR COCKSURENESS? 221 7.16 THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE 223 7.17 THE
STRANGE CASE OF CHANDRASEKHAR AND SIRIUS B 224 7.18 EDDINGTON'S WILDER
SPECULATIONS 227 7.19 RECOLLECTIONS OF EDDINGTON'S STUDENTS 229 7.20
FRUSTRATIONS 231 7.21 FINAL YEAR, ILLNESS, AND DEATH 232 REFERENCES 233
HARLOW SHAPLEY: DENNING OUR GALAXY 235 8.1 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 237
8.2 PRINCETON AND HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL 239 8.3 'STANDARD CANDLES' AND
THE DISTANCES OF THE STARS 241 8.4 FIRST VISIT TO HARVARD 243 8.5 ON TO
MOUNT WILSON 243 8.6 THE CEPHEID AND RR LYRAE STANDARD CANDLES 244 8.7
THE DISTANCES OF THE GLOBULAR CLUSTERS 245 8.8 THE CENTRE OF THE MILKY
WAY 246 8.9 A NEAR MISS 247 8.10 THE 'GREAT DEBATE' 248 8.11 DIRECTOR OF
HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY 250 8.12 THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL 253
8.13 'SHAPLEY'S UNIVERSE' 255 8.14 EXPLORING THE SOUTHERN SKY 257
CONTENTS XIII 8.15 THE DISTRIBUTION OF GALAXIES IN SPACE 257 8.16
DIVERSIONS FROM ASTRONOMY 259 8.17 THE SCULPTOR AND FORNAX DWARF
GALAXIES 259 8.18 THE SOCIABLE DIRECTOR 260 8.19 OTHER ACTIVITIES 261
8.20 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS '-* 261 8.21 LOSING THE INITIATIVE 262 8.22
POST-WAR SOCIAL CONCERNS 264 8.23 THE 'COMMUNIST IN THE STATE
DEPARTMENT' 264 8.24 RETIREMENT 265 REFERENCES 266 9 EDWIN HUBBLE:
JOURNEYING TO THE EDGE 268 9.1 BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS 268 9.2 UNIVERSITY
OF CHICAGO 270 9.3 RHODES SCHOLAR 271 9.4 BACK TO THE UNITED STATES 273
9.5 GRADUATE STUDENT AT YERKES 273 9.6 MAJOR HUBBLE 275 9.7 MOUNT WILSON
276 9.8 THE DISTANCES OF THE GALAXIES 279- 9.9 MARRIAGE 280 9.10 THE
'TUNING FORK' DIAGRAM 282 9.11 THE HUBBIES AT HOME 284 9.12 THE
RECESSION OF THE NEBULAE 285 9.13 DISTANCE INDICATORS 289 9.14 INNER
DOUBTS 290 9.15 THE HUBBLE AND VAN MAANEN PROBLEM ;290 9.16 CELEBRITY
STATUS \ 291 9.17 COUNTING THE GALAXIES \ 292 9.18 'THE REALM OF THE
NEBULAE' 292 9.19 SECOND WORLD WAR 294 9.20 THE POST-WAR PERIOD 295 9.21
LAST YEARS 297 REFERENCES * 300 INDEX 302 |
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