1958 TREASURY OF SCIENCE, FIRST ‘SPACE AGE’ EDITION

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1958 TREASURY OF SCIENCE, FIRST ‘SPACE AGE’ EDITION
1958 TREASURY OF SCIENCE, FIRST ‘SPACE AGE’ EDITION
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Harlow Shapley, ed.
A TREASURY OF SCIENCE
(Harper, 1958) Fourth (Book Club) Edition. Original cloth and boards in Dust Jacket. 776pp.
Originally issued in 1943, four subsequent editions appeared, this being
the first to include a section on
Rockets, Missiles and Space,
with contributions by G. Edward Pendray, a founder of the American Rocket Society and editor of Robert Goddard’s works; American rocket scientist Milton Rosen, who oversaw development of Project Vanguard; British science fiction writer and Space guru Arthur Clarke; Russian scientist P. Isakov on Sputnik; and British astronomer James Jeans on the question of extraterrestrial life; as well as a new essay on Radio Astronomy by Lovell.
An essential volume for any Space Travel collection.
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