April 12, 2024
1950 THE CONQUEST OF SPACE Will Ley CHESLEY BONESTELL
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THE CONQUEST OF SPACE PAINTINGS BY CHESLEY BONESTELL TEXT BY WILL LEY 1950 FIFTH PRINTING, MARCH 1950THE VIKING PRESSNEW YORK Hardcover & Dust Jacket160 pp Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986) inspired an entire generation of astronomers, artists, writers, engineers and visionaries with his remarkable paintings. Living to the age of 98, he saw the entire scope of manned flight, and himself influenced mankind's push into outer space. He illustrated the seminal "Conquest of Space" with author and space travel evangelist Willy Ley, with new paintings of unimaginable sights throughout the solar system. The book so moved a young reviewer named Arthur C. Clarke, that he wrote a gushing review of the book, including the prophetic lines: "In the years to come, it is probably destined to fire many imaginations, and therefore change many lives." Willy Ley (1906 - 1969) was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor. His works from the 1950s and '60s are regarded as classics of popular science. This is a somewhat early printing of this classic book (first published only a year earlier in 1949) on space exploration. Contains 22 text figures , and 58 paintings ( 16 in glorious color
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