E-Book, Englisch, Band 296, 244 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Expanded Edition
E-Book, Englisch, Band 296, 244 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6399-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
1 Thirty Centuries of Eclipse Watching 1
2 Eclipses Explained 28
3 Time, Tide, and Gravity 41
4 The Chromosphere 56
5 The Solar Corona 76
6 Interplanetary Dust 106
7 The Earth's Atmosphere 129
8 Waves in the Earth's Atmosphere 148
9 A Test of General Relativity 166
10 "I Got Rhythm, You Got Rhythm" 183
11 Future Experiments: Is the Sun Shrinking? 190
12 The Great Hawaiian Eclipse 197
Postscript 213
Glossary 215
Index 219