Interplanetary Flight, 2nd Ed, Arthur C Clarke
SPECIALIST TITLE
Interplanetary Flight – An Introduction to Astronautics
Arthur C Clarke B.SC., F.R.A.S
Publisher: Temple Press
Publication year: 1960 2nd Edition
Format: Hardback
Pages: 255
Condition Notes: Please Note the photographs attached are of the actual book you are purchasing. Please review these carefully and feel free to request more should you require them.
A truly lovely hardback copy. DJ intact, unclipped and in relatively good condition. Some small rubbing but DJ has done a good job of protecting the boards underneath, which are still in a nice bright condition. With only some dull/rubbed areas mostly to the edges from shelf wear. Slight twist on the spine, but otherwise good. Internal pages in good clean condition with minimal foxing.
About the book:
One of Arthur C Clarkes' non-fiction titles, featuring beautiful artwork to the dust jacket (Front: The far side of the moon- An artist’s version of the image obtained by Lunik III in 1959; Back: The Moon, as first seen by telescope by Galileo in 1609, and depicted in his ‘Message from the Stars’, 1610) Includes 14 plates plus frontispiece, now largely of historical interest, along with a preface to the second edition from the author written in 1960.
From the cover:
Described by one reviewer of the first edition as ‘perhaps the best introduction yet written for those making their first contact with the interplanetary idea’ this well know work by Arthur C Clarke has now been brought fully up to date in the light of recent achievements, including many accurately predicted by the author.
The approach throughout is from the astronomical rather than the engineering point of view and the level of writing is such that the non-scientific reader can follow the argument easily. To this end, nearly all the mathematics has been relegated to an appendix where an interested reader will find much useful data.
Entirely revised and enlarged, with a new chapter on ‘Earth Satellites and Lunar Probes,’ many new illustrations, and a comprehensive index, this second edition of Interplanetary Flight establishes more firmly than ever the high reputation of this work as both a serious introduction to the new science of astronautics and a truly exciting survey of the possibilities and problems of space travel.
