The End of the World: A Scientific Inquiry
- Hardcover
- New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, 1953
New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Chesley Bonestell. 220pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. The pages are age toned. In an attractive price-clipped dust jacket, with minor edge wear.
Ex-libris UFO enthusiast George W. Earley, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Earley was a U.S. engineer and editor. He was involved in science fiction fandom during the 1940s. He is the author of "Encounters with Aliens: UFOs and Alien Beings in Science Fiction." Illustrated by Chesley Bonestell.
From the dust jacket-
"Astronomer-physicist Kenneth Heuer opens his challenging book with an absorbing account of the various legends and theories about the world's end. He then explores the scientific possibilities among the ways the world can end: comet collisions; moon, asteroid and star collisions; the death of the sun; the explosion of the sun; atomic war. This last is given particularly thoughtful attention.
Ex-libris UFO enthusiast George W. Earley, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Earley was a U.S. engineer and editor. He was involved in science fiction fandom during the 1940s. He is the author of "Encounters with Aliens: UFOs and Alien Beings in Science Fiction." Illustrated by Chesley Bonestell.
From the dust jacket-
"Astronomer-physicist Kenneth Heuer opens his challenging book with an absorbing account of the various legends and theories about the world's end. He then explores the scientific possibilities among the ways the world can end: comet collisions; moon, asteroid and star collisions; the death of the sun; the explosion of the sun; atomic war. This last is given particularly thoughtful attention.