Item #3960 The Dream of Flight Aeronautics from Classical Times to the Renaissance. Clive HART.
The Dream of Flight Aeronautics from Classical Times to the Renaissance

The Dream of Flight Aeronautics from Classical Times to the Renaissance

London: Faber and Faber, 1972. Quarto, blue cloth with two-headed mythical bird embossed on front board, 200 pp., 16 double-sided plates, four appendices, and bibliography. Light spotting on both endpapers and preliminary leaves, inscription erased on front-endpaper, otherwise a good copy in dust-jacket. A detailed account of the ingenious results of aeronautical speculation and experiment from the earliest times to the emergence of the "new" science in the late Renaissance period which contributed in the elaboration of aerodynamic devices. Item #3960

Price (AUD): $70.00

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