Éléments d'astrophysique: introduction à l'étude de l'énergétique solaire et siellaire

Abstract

THE author has produced a useful book of reference based on his public lectures delivered at Bordeaux. The contents are divided into two parts. Part 1 contains some seventy paragraphs, in which are outlined the recent advances in astrophysics made possible by well-known theoretical and practical investigators. Part 2 includes tables of notation, physical constants, explanatory notes, and bibliography arranged with reference numbers so as to amplify the paragraphs of Part 1. Although the book is intended, presumably, for general scientific reading, the arrangement of the subjects will scarcely commend itself to the beginner. Commencing with an account of modern ideas on the structure of the atom and the phenomena of radiation, the author then passes to such matters as the opacity of stellar atmospheres and radiation pressure. Paragraphs dealing with the sun follow those on stellar spectra, giant and dwarf stars, etc.

Éléments d'astrophysique: introduction à l'étude de l'énergétique solaire et siellaire.

Par Dr. Albert Nodon. Pp. viii + 244. (Paris: Albert Blanchard, 1926.) 20 francs.