L’Astronautica.

The first Italian edition of Ananoff’s encyclopedic L’Astronautique (French, 1950, also in this catalog), translated by Armando Silvestri and issued in Garzanti’s Piccola Biblioteca Scientifica. Eight parts and 26 chapters of about 460 pages cover the astronaut’s vehicle, life and temperature control in a limited space, trajectories and durations of interplanetary journeys, free-fall and constant-acceleration flight, relativity, and a closing “defense of astronautics.” Printed 20 March 1952.