The Milky Way galaxy and statistical cosmology, 1890-1924

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations = ⅸ
• Acknowledgments = xi
• Abbreviations of Manuscript Sources = xiv
• Introduction
• Part Ⅰ. The Nineteentb-Century Background = 1
• 1 Early Nineteenth-Century Statistical Astronomy = 13
• William Herschel and the "Construction of the Heavens" = 13
• F. G. W. Struve and Galactic Theory, circa 1850 = 20
• John Herschel and Mid-century Cosmology = 26
• 2 Statistical Astronomy and the Milky Way Galaxy = 31
• The Bonner Durchmusterung and Stellar Distributions = 31
• Cosmology and Stellar Studies, circa 1880 = 42
• Proper Motions, Parallaxes, and Stellar Distances = 45
• Statistical Cosmology : Seeliger and Kapteyn = 49
• Part Ⅱ. Statistical Cosmology, 1890-1924
• 3 Seeliger and Stellar Density = 55
• The Early Years = 58
• Statistical Cosmology and Universal Gravitation = 64
• Stellar Cosmology and Statistical Astronomy = 70
• 4 Kapteyn and the Distribution of Stars = 80
• Early Developments = 80
• Methodology and the Discovery of Star-Streaming = 84
• Distribution of Stars = 94
• 5 Statistical Astronomy as a Research Program, 1900-1915 = 100
• Assumptions and Research Problems, circa 1900 = 101
• Research Problems and Stellar Distributions, circa 1910 = 112
• Research Problems and Stellar Motions, circa 1910 = 126
• Methodology, Stellar Statistice, and Scientific Explanation = 136
• 6 Statistical Cosmology as a Research Program, 1915-1922 = 141
• Statistical Cosmology, 1915-1920 = 141
• Seeliger's Cosmology = 145
• The "Kapteyn Universe" = 150
• Statistical Cosmology, 1920-1922 = 158
• 7 Internationalization of Astronomy = 160
• Kapteyn and International Science = 162
• Seeliger and German Astronomy = 175
• Internationalizing of Statistical Cosmology = 181
• Part Ⅲ. Statistical Cosmology and the Second Astronomical Revolution
• 8 The Decline of a Research Program = 189
• Shapley’s Cosmology = 191
• The Dutch Reaction = 202
• The German and Swedish Responses = 212
• The Beginning of a New Consensus = 218
• 9 Conclusion : Research Programs in Transition = 221
• The "New Astronomy" = 221
• Concluding Comments = 231
• Appendix Ⅰ : Seeliger's Star-Ratio Function = 237
• Appendix Ⅱ : Seeliger's Density Theorem = 240
• Bibliographical Note = 246
• Index = 255