Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1568581815 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Collectors may love the sometimes garish rockets and grinning spacemen from the 1950s periodicals Colliers and This Week. From Publishers Weekly Writer Frederick I. Clarke provides a one-page foreword. Etchings of 18th-century trips to the moon, with great vultures and giant balloons, dominate one section; another includes a cover from the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (1934). With hundreds of big images in glossy color, Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection makes available Ordway's hoard. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Arthur C. Ordway III worked with Werner von Braun in the early days of NASA; he also spent decades collecting pictures, paintings and diagrams of space voyages, real or imagined
This realm is populated by heroes and scientists, dreamers and trailblazers. Visions of Spaceflight is a compelling mix of the intentionally fantastic and the rigorously scientific.. Images abound of square-jawed astronauts maneuvering their craft near Mars and of fantastic vehicles with propulsion ranging from dewdrops (17th century) to antigravity (19th century). This full-color book assembles a fabulous collection of images of astronautics and rocketry. The pictures, both imagined and real, extend from the 16th
"Well done" according to A Customer. Beautiful "coffee table" book. The author's love for the pictorial material in his collection and this book shows at every page. The author is at his best with the "post-Goddard" material and 20th century representations of space flight. Being the proud owner of some of the original, older material, I did notice that a couple of captions for Flammarion and Terzi are wrong but I am just being picky Enjoy!. M. A Michaud said Fine reproductions of pre-Space Age images. This large-format book brings together paintings, etchings and other visual images of how humans envisioned travel to the moon and the planets from early Renaissance times to the 1950's. Most were illustrations accompanying published works of fiction. These images, collected by Ordway, are very well reproduced and have useful captions. Until the second half of the nineteenth century, these depictions of space vehicles, other worlds, and their po. Excellent Historical Collection Kevin Spoering All of the paintings in this volume are dated, the paintings are for the most part not accurate as we see spaceflight today, but their historical value is immense. For example, early paintings of the lunar surface often exhibit sharp peaks on mountains, of course we now know eons of cosmic bombardment smoothly rounded most features. Text at the beginning of this book explain how these paintings were collected over many years, they date from befo