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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hb, laminated pictorial covers, no dj (as published), 393pp. Good, chip to top of spine and slight edgewear along spine, contents clean. Facsimile reprint of volume 4 of Chess Monthly magazine, originally published in New York in 1860, including twelve issues and Index. With articles, news, games, chess… problems (edited by Sam Loyd). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sprache: Deutsch
Verlag: Köln, DuMont Tb. Nr. 85. 1979., 1979
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This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury
Swenson, Jr., Loyd S., Grimwood, James M., Alexander, Charles C.
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing, 1975
Serie: Philosophical Studies, Buch 74 von 134. Buch 74 von 134 - Philosophical Studies
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This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury
Swenson, Loyd S. , Jr. and James M. Grimwood and Charles C. Alexander
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255 pp. Rústica con solapas. Muy buen estado. 1ª edición. ISBN 978-84-9006-128-2.
Chariots for Apollo: The Nasa History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft to 1969
Brooks, Courtney G./ Grimwood, James M./ Swenson, Loyd S./ Dickson, Paul (Introduction by)
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Verlag: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, WASHINGTON, 1966
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Zustand: BUONO USATO. The Nasa Historical Series INGLESE Pubblicazione tecnica e scientifica della Nasa, lingua inglese, vol. n. 4201 della collana. Corposa brossura di carta opaca visibilmente danneggiata al dorso, segno di piegatura al piatto posteriore annerito da polvere, abrasioni alle estremità. Interno ben preservato, car…te integre e non sgualcite da manipolazione, ad integrare il testo un cospicuo corredo iconografico in b. e n., tonalità appena ossidate, pulviscolo ai tagli che presentano due gradazioni di colore. N. pag. 681.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were… apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated - particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein - and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I was pleased and felt immensely privileged to share in his planning of a book devoted to 'analysis, the method of philosophy at work' as in his articles on the knowledge-problem, induction, and free will. In view of the penetration of his articles, such a book seemed long overdue as James had insisted even in 1905. When Miller's projected book on 'analysis at work' did not appear by 1956, I consulted him about putting together a collection of his published essays. Such a collection seemed but slight homage to one who had made such a striking contribution to American philosophy in rela tion to James and one from whom I had learned so much. He felt, however, that such a collection would be inappropriate and preferred to concentrate on a book, never finished, on 'the principles of practical intelligence', the application of intelligence in a 'morality of results' for human welfare.
This New Ocean; A History of Project Mercury. NASA SP-4201
Swenson, Loyd S., Jr.; Grimwood, James M., and Alexander, Charles C.
Verlag: GPO, Washington, DC, 1966
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xv, [1], 681, [3] pages. Illustrations. Fold-out charts. Footnotes. Sources and bibliography. Appendices. Index. Ex-library with usual library markings. Inside rear board scuffed. Pocket at rep. This is one of the NASA Historical Series. Boards somewhat worn, scuffed, and scratched. The authors argue th…at Project Mercury, from its inception in the fall of 1958, was preeminently an engineering, rather than a scientific, enterprise. Loyd Sylvan Swenson, Jr., Ph.D. 1932-2016 was Professor Emeritus, University of Houston, History Dept., author and NASA historian, A third generation Texan born in Waco, Loyd graduated Waco High School, Rice Institute (University), served as Lt. in the US Navy, and attained his Masters and Ph.D. from Claremont College. He taught his entire career at University of Houston, with an interim year at Harvard Project Physics, Boston. He co-authored the history of the Mercury and Apollo space programs and was considered an authority on the work of Albert Einstein, beginning with his research and publications on aether drift, and was a major contributor to the field of history of science and technology. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. Its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights, and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The Space Race began with the 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1. This came as a shock to the American public, and led to the creation of NASA to expedite existing U.S. space efforts, and place most of them under civilian control. After the successful launch of the Explorer 1 satellite in 1958, manned spaceflight became the next goal. On May 5, the U.S. launched its astronaut Alan Shepard on a suborbital flight. The U.S. reached its orbital goal on February 20, 1962, when John Glenn made three orbits around the Earth.
Sprache: Englisch
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1953
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(25,5 x 17,5 cm). VIII, 395 S. Mit Abbildungen. Original-Broschur. Erste Ausgabe dieser bedeutenden Arbeit über den "Shapley Value". - Shapley (1923-2016) erhält 2012 zusammen mit Alvin E. Roth für seine Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Spieltheorie den Alfred-Nobel-Gedächtnispreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und ist damit einer…der wenigen Mathematiker, die diesen Preis erhielten. - Der Band enthält weiter von John von Neumann "A Certain Zero-sum Two-person Game Equivalent to the Optimal Assignment Problem" (SS. 5-12) und von D. B. Gillies, J. P. Mayberry und John von Neumann "Two Variants of Pocker" (SS. 13-50). - Sauber und gut erhalten.
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Chariots For Apollo; A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft NASA SP-4205
Brooks, Courtney G., and Grimwood, James M., and Swenson, Loyd S., Jr.
Verlag: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch, Washington DC, 1979
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No dust jacket present. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xvii, [1], 538, [4] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Source Notes. Bibliographical Notes. Index. Library binding. Ex-library with usual library markings. Courtney G. Brooks was a Research Associate in the History Department of t…he University of Houston from 1969 to 1974. In that capacity he coauthored the NASA sponsored history of the development of the Apollo spacecraft, now in final revision. Born in Savannah, Georgia (1939), he received his B.A. degree from Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama (1964), and his M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1969) degrees in history from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. James M. Grimwood has been NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Historian since 1962. He was born in Lincoln, Alabama (1922), taking his A.B. degree from Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama (1948), and his M.A. in History from the University of Alabama. He taught history in secondary schools (1950-1952), and at San Antonio College in Texas (1958-1960). Grimwood was an Air Force Historian in South Carolina and Texas (1953-1960). Prior to joining MSC, he was historian with the Army Missile Command, Huntsville, Alabama, preparing histories of Army missile systems. He is a joint author of This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury, and author of Project Mercury: A Chronology. Loyd S. Swenson, Jr. co-authored the history of the Mercury and Apollo space programs and was an authority on the work of Albert Einstein, beginning with his research and publications on aether drift, and was a major contributor in field of history of science and technology. From the Preface: Apollo was America's program to land men on the moon and get them safely back to the earth. In May 1961 President Kennedy gave the signal for planning and developing the machines to take men to that body. After NASA's creation in October 1958, its leaders set up a group to study what the agency should do in near-earth and deep-space exploration. Among the items listed by that group was a lunar landing, a proposal also discussed in circles outside NASA as a means for achieving and demonstrating technological supremacy in space. America had a program - Project Mercury - to put man in low-earth orbit and recover him safely. In July 1960 NASA announced plans to follow Mercury with a program, later named Apollo, to fly men around the moon. Because of its accelerated pace, high technology, and need for reliability, Apollo's costs were high, but the program lasted longer than either Mercury or Gemini. Requiring seven years of development and test before men could fly its machines, Apollo craft carried men into space from October 1968 through July 1975. The Apollo program itself recorded its final return from the moon on flight 17 in December 1972, after a dozen men had made six successful explorations on the lunar surface. Shortly thereafter Skylab, using the basic Saturn launch vehicle and Apollo spacecraft hardware, sailed into earth orbit, supporting crews on research missions up to 84 days in length during 1973 and 1974. Apollo passed from public view in July 1975, following the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight, flown by American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts to make the first international space rendezvous. Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft begins with the creation of NASA itself and with the definition of a manned space flight program to follow Mercury. It ends with Apollo 11, when America attained its goal of the 1960s, landing the first men on the moon and returning them to the earth. The focal points of this story are the spacecraft - the command and service modules and the lunar module. The 14 chapters cover three phases of spacecraft evolution: defining and designing the vehicles needed to do the job, developing and qualifying (or certifying) them for the task, and operating them to achieve the objective.
This New Ocean; A History of Project Mercury. NASA SP-4201
Swenson, Loyd S., Jr.; Grimwood, James M.; and Alexander, Charles C.
Verlag: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Technology Utilization, Scientific and Technical Information Division, Washington, DC, 1966
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Wraps. Zustand: Good. xv, [1], 681, [3] pages. Illustrations. Fold-out charts. Footnotes, Note on Sources and Selected Bibliography. Appendices. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some fore-edge damp staining. Loyd Sylvan Swenson, Jr., Ph.D. 1932-2016 was Professor Emeritus, University of Houston, History Dept., author and…NASA historian. A third generation Texan he served as Lt. in the US Navy, and attained his Masters and Ph.D. from Claremont College. He taught his entire career at University of Houston, with an interim year at Harvard Project Physics, Boston. He co-authored the history of the Mercury and Apollo space programs and was considered an authority on the work of Albert Einstein and was a major contributor to the field of history of science and technology. James Maurice Grimwood was born on October 26, 1922 in Lincoln, AL. During WWII he served in the South Pacific with the US Navy. He was Chief Historian at NASA from 1962 until his retirement in 1979. His books include This New Ocean (A History of Project Mercury), On the Shoulders of Titans (A History of Project Gemini), and Chariots for Apollo (A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft). His final work was a memoir called What I Remember that will be treasured for generations to come. This book describes the origins, preparation, and nature of America's first achievements in manned space flight. This narrative spans the basic events in the managerial and technological history of Project Mercury. Writing only a few years after the events described, the authors acknowledge having a short perspective. They have tried to make this narrative as comprehensive and accurate as possible in one volume. Already Project Mercury has come to be regarded as a single episode in the history of flight and of the United States. Rather, it was many episodes, many people, many days of inspiration, frustration, and elation. . Thousands of engineers, scientists, technicians, and administrators, as well as the seven astronauts, cooperated to fulfill Mercury's goals, and this program history tries to blend and balance the personal, social, and technical facets of the project as it progressed. The authors have sought to answer unanswered questions, to answer some questions that had not been asked, and even perhaps to pose some questions that cannot be answered yet. This study is, in the legal sense of the Space Act of 1958, an "official" history of Project Mercury. But NASA and its Historical Advisory Committee have wisely recognized that history should be written, taught, and finally judged by historians, and that the ultimate responsibility for historical generalizations and interpretations should rest with the authors. Accordingly the authors have been encouraged to arrive at historical judgments independently. The organization and division of labor imposed on the narrative conforms to its chronology, to three genres of historical literature, and to the thesis that Project Mercury, from its inception in the fall of 1958, was preeminently an engineering, rather than a scientific, enterprise. Part One, entitled "Research," could be called "origins" or "antecedents." This section on the long and complex "prehistory" of Project Mercury follows a topical organization and might be seen as part of the external history of applied science. Part One recounts primarily progress in rocketry and research in space medicine, aerodynamics, and thermodynamics from the end of the Second World War to the inception of the first United States manned satellite project. The focus is on the evolutionary roles of the military services and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, organizational nucleus of NASA. Part Two, "Development," assumes that all of the basic and most of the applied research necessary for undertaking a manned ballistic satellite project had been completed by October 1958. Thus the so-called research and development, or "R and D," phase of Mercury is mostly, if not entirely, "D" and corresponds to the.
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XII, 391 S. Mit Porträt und Abbildungen. OLwd (mit OUmschlag). 4to. Sprache: Englisch.
