{"product_id":"perelman-ya-tsiolkovsky-life-and-technical-ideas-tsiolkovskii-zhizn-i-tekhnicheskie-idei-1937-in-russian","title":"Perelman, Ya. Tsiolkovsky: Life and Technical Ideas (Tsiolkovskii: Zhizn' i tekhnicheskie idei). 1937. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eПерельман, Яков Исидорович (1882-1942). Циолковский : жизнь и технические идеи \/ Я. И. Перельман ; рисунки М. Днепровского ; портреты В. Любимова.\u003cbr\u003eМосква ; Ленинград : ОНТИ, Главная редакция научно-популярной и юношеской литературы, 1937. 166 с. : ил., 5 л. ил. ; 17 см.\u003cbr\u003eИздательский коленкоровый переплёт. Тираж 30 000 экз.\u003cbr\u003eПереплёт в удовлетворительном состоянии: ткань значительно загрязнена пятнами по всей поверхности. Блок в хорошем состоянии: бумага равномерно пожелтела; страницы полные.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003ePerelman, Yakov Isidorovich (1882-1942). Tsiolkovskii: zhizn' i tekhnicheskie idei [Tsiolkovsky: Life and Technical Ideas] \/ Ia. I. Perelman ; drawings by M. Dneprovskii ; portraits by V. Liubimov.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow ; Leningrad : ONTI (United Scientific and Technical Publishing House), Popular Science and Youth Literature Division, 1937. 166 pp. : illustrations, 5 plates ; 17 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's cloth binding. Print run of 30,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eBinding fair: cloth heavily stained and soiled throughout. Text block good: uniformly age-toned; pages complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rare early biography of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) - the self-taught schoolteacher from Kaluga who pioneered the mathematical theory of rocketry and cosmonautics - written by his personal friend Yakov Isidorovich Perelman (1882-1942) just two years after Tsiolkovsky's death. Perelman was the Soviet Union's most celebrated popular science writer, author of the enormously successful \"Entertaining\" series - Entertaining Physics, Entertaining Mathematics, Entertaining Astronomy - translated into dozens of languages and read by millions across the Soviet world. Having known Tsiolkovsky personally, he writes from direct acquaintance with the inventor and his ideas. Part I of the book covers Tsiolkovsky's biography from his ancestors and childhood, through his years as a self-taught provincial schoolteacher in Kaluga, his long struggle for recognition in tsarist Russia, and his final years under Soviet power; Part II examines his technical contributions: the all-metal rigid dirigible, the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation and its implications, rocket propulsion mechanics, interplanetary travel, and the \"Zvezdolet\" concept. The chronological table on pages 165-166 records key dates through Tsiolkovsky's death on 19 September 1935 at 78 years of age. The book appeared at a moment of intense Soviet interest in rocket technology and astronautics - the theoretical foundations of the Soviet space program were already being laid - and Perelman's dual authority as a scientist's friend and as the country's premier popular science communicator made this the definitive early account. Perelman himself perished in the Siege of Leningrad in 1942, making all of his pre-war publications documents of a life cut short.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44377737265194,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_4341.jpg?v=1779334537","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/perelman-ya-tsiolkovsky-life-and-technical-ideas-tsiolkovskii-zhizn-i-tekhnicheskie-idei-1937-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}