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Stars and Atoms

by Arthur Stanley Eddington

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  1. 1Epigraph — Preface
  2. 2Lecture I — The Interior of a Star
  3. 3Temperature in the Interior
  4. 4Ionization of Atoms
  5. 5Radiation Pressure and Mass
  6. 6The Interior of a Star
  7. 7Opacity of Stellar Matter
  8. 8The Relation of Brightness to Mass
  9. 9Dense Stars
  10. 10Lecture II — Some Recent Investigations
  11. 11The Story of Algol
  12. 12The Story of the Companion of Sirius
  13. 13Unknown Atoms and Interpretation of Spectra
  14. 14Spectral Series
  15. 15The Cloud in Space
  16. 16The Sun’s Chromosphere
  17. 17The Story of Betelgeuse
  18. 18Lecture III — The Age of the Stars
  19. 19Pulsating Stars
  20. 20The Cepheid as a ‘Standard Candle’
  21. 21The Contraction Hypothesis
  22. 22Subatomic Energy
  23. 23Evolution of the Stars
  24. 24Radiation of Mass
  25. 25Appendix

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