The Birth of Modern Astronomy

• Main Author: Habing, Harm J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Historical & Cultural Astronomy,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; History.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; History of Science.

This richly illustrated book discusses the ways in which astronomy expanded after 1945 from a modest discipline to a robust and modern science. It begins with an introduction to the state of astronomy in 1945 before recounting how in the following years, initial observations were made in hitherto un...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Prologue
• Part 1: 1945-1985
• Chapter 1: Developments in Instruments
• Chapter 2: Stars and Galaxies
• Chapter 3: Developing New Instruments
• Chapter 4: Stars
• Chapter 5: Galaxies
• Chapter 6: Developments in Instruments
• Chapter 7: Stars
• Chapter 8: Galaxies and the Universe
• Part 2: 1985-2010
• Chapter 9: Plans, People, Organisations and Instruments
• Chapter 10: Main-Sequence Stars and Failed Stars
• Chapter 11: Something Completely New: Exoplanets
• Chapter 12: The Formation of Stars
• Chapter 13: What is Left: Compact Objects
• Chapter 14: Transient Phenomena, Mergers and Explosions
• Chapter 15: Galaxies 1985-1995
• Chapter 16: Galaxies 1995-2005: Another Revolution
• Chapter 17: Harvest Time
• Epilogue
• Index.