Three hundred years of gravitation /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. |
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| Description: | xiii, 684 p. : ill. : 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Gravitation Cosmology Astrophysics Astrophysics. Cosmology. Gravitation. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/850748 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Newton's Principia
- 2. Newtonianism and today's physics
- 3. Newton, quantum theory and reality
- 4. Experiments on gravitation
- 5. Experimental gravitation from Newton's Principia to Einstein's general relativity
- 6. The problem of motion in Newtonian and Einsteinian gravity
- 7. Dark stars: the evolution of an idea
- 8. Astrophysical black holes
- 9. Gravitational radiation
- 10. The emergence of structure in the universe: galaxy formation and dark matter
- 11. Gravitational interactions of cosmic strings
- 12. Inflationary cosmology
- 13. Inflation and quantum cosmology
- 14. Quantum cosmology
- 15. Superstring unification
- 16. Covariant description of canonical formalism in geometrical theories
- Index
