Table of Contents

Introduction Cosmology The Beginnings Through Newton The Naked Sky The Origins of Astronomy Early Greek Astronomy Quantitative Greek Astronomy The Medieval Interlude The New Astronomy The Newtonian Synthesis The Life and Death of Stars Radiation and Atoms Telescopes Reading Stellar Spectra The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram Stellar Evolution: Physical Ideas The Interstellar Medium Stellar Evolution: The Early Phases Stellar Evolution: The Late Phases Cosmology Herschel to the Present The Discovery of Galaxies The Universe of Galaxies The Cosmological Clues Violent Events in Galaxies Models of the Universe The Evolution of Matter Worlds Beyond the Earth Planetary Preliminaries Solar System Planetology Life Elsewhere Appendices Index