Willy Ley : prophet of the Space Age / Jared S. Buss.
Willy Ley : prophet of the Space Age / Jared S. Buss.
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Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2017]
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G 2018/0261
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English
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xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Youthful horizons -- From the earth to the moon, via Berlin -- Death of a science in Germany -- Adventures of a romantic naturalist -- The PM years and the science writers at war -- An engineer's postwar dreams -- The Tom Corbett years -- The Sputnik challenge -- Scholarly twilight -...
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Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2017]
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
Already a highly respected rocket scientist and compatriot of Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley was the author of bestselling books and at the forefront of popular science journalism. But as von Braun came onto center stage with his Saturn rockets, Ley was ostracized and excluded from the limelight by younger historians and scientists. Buss gives us the...
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Willy Ley : prophet of the Space Age / Jared S. Buss.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/0261
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74VKVGRlO3mZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGRlO3mZ
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ISBN
9780813054438
DDC
629.4092
MMS ID
991024152413402626
