Eclipses of the Sun / / S. A. Mitchell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Mitchell, S. A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1935]; ©1935
• Year of Publication: 1935
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)

Examines the historical accounts and scientific accomplishments related to solar eclipses. Specifically examines the prediction and verification of eclipses, the spectroscope, the surface of the sun, the structure of the atom, the flash spectrum, the importance of ionization, coronal theories, Einstein's theory of relativity, shadow bands, and related problems such as solar rotation, sun spot vortices, polarities, and others.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. EARLY HISTORICAL ECLIPSES -- II. BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL ECLIPSES -- III. THE PREDICTION OF ECLIPSES -- IV. THE VERIFICATION OF ECLIPSES -- V. THE SPECTROSCOPE -- VI. THE SPECTROSCOPE (CONTINUED) -- VII. THE SURFACE OF THE SUN -- VIII. MODERN ECLIPSES BEFORE 1878 -- IX.NINETEENTH CENTURY ECLIPSES AFTER 1878 -- X. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES IN 1900 AND 1901 -- XI. THE SPANISH ECLIPSE OF 1905 -- XII. THE AMERICAN ECLIPSE OF 1918 -- XIII. ECLIPSES SINCE 1923 -- XIV. THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM -- XV. PHOTOGRAPHING THE FLASH SPECTRUM -- XVI. DISCUSSING THE FLASH SPECTRUM -- XVII. THE IMPORTANCE OF IONIZATION -- XVIII. HEIGHTS AND RELATED PROBLEMS -- XIX. HEIGHTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF VAPORS -- XX. THE CORONA -- XXI. CORONAL THEORIES -- XXII. THE EINSTEIN THEORY OF RELATIVITY -- XXIII. HAS THE EINSTEIN THEORY BEEN VERIFIED? -- XXIV. SHADOW BANDS -- XV . THE ECLIPSES OF 1932 AND 1934 -- INDEX -- Backmatter