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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This book gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the topics of classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences. The fourth edition of this successful calculus-based textbook and reference includes a wealth of new information and several chapters are restructured for clarity and improved organization. The chapters on radiation mechanisms and temperatures have been combined, and some of the material from the appendices has been redistributed to appropriate places throughout the text. In addition, the chapters on the solar system and cosmology are rewritten to reflect new understanding and tables in the appendix on the theory of relativity have been updated. Long considered a standard text for physical science majors, FUNDAMENTAL ASTRONOMY is also an excellent reference and entrée for dedicated amateur astronomers.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface to the Fourth Edition.

-Preface to the First Edition.

-Contents.

-1. Introduction.
-2. Spherical Astronomy.
-3. Observations and Instruments.
-4. Photometric Concepts and Magnitudes.
-5. Radiation Mechanisms.
-6. Celestial Mechanics.
-7. The Solar System.
-8. Stellar Spectra.
-9. Binary Stars and Stellar Masses.
-10. Stellar Structure.
-11. Stellar Evolution.
-12. The Sun.
-13. Variable Stars.
-14. Compact Stars.

-15. The Interstellar Medium.

-16. Star Clusters and Associations.

-17. The Milky Way.
-18. Galaxies.
-19. Cosmology.
-Appendices.

-A. Mathematics.
-B. Theory of Relativity.
-C. Tables.

-Answers to Exercises.
-Further Reading.
-Photograph Credits.
-Name and Subject Index.

-Colour Supplement.