LA VIE SERAIT -- ELLE POSSIBLE A BORD DE SATELLITES ARTIFICIELS DE LA TERRE OU DE PROJECTILES ASTRONAUTIQUES

by M. Ernest Esclangon

$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1950. Octavo, pp. 1-2 1-2 3-18 19-21: ads 22: imprint , original orange printed wrappers. First edition. Offprint from MEMORIAL DE L'ARTILLERIE FRANCAISE, Volume 23, number 4 1949 . An important paper by a French astronomer and mathematician, who became director of l'Observatoire de Paris and president of the l'Académie des Sciences, on the possibility of manned space flights and the

• Binding: Wrappers

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