Willy Ley - Essays on Astronomy torrent

WILLY LEY - ESSAYS ON ASTRONOMY

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The torrent contains (God willing) the below listed essays and snippets (essays [15-50 kb, some did span several issues but there were also some doubleheaders], snippets [3-10 kb], mainly from Q&A sessions. Orphaned pieces were given titles). Format, all htm. Embedded illustrations, 'particle board' cleaned (50ties paper quality), png and jpg. Some substitutions of low quality illustrations (historic frontispieces). A number of intro pictures were added (NASA, Bonestells, magazine covers). Link/credit if known, of interest. Note files, self explanatory.

Source: GALAXY and other magazines, period 30ties (some rough reading), 40ties, 50ties, 60ties, in particular the GALAXY facsimile torrent (80%).

Version 2014-03. Hopefully no more pruning and trimming. An older version was uploaded to bookOS.org [the name changes] (Ley, essays.rar). I would like to see it replaced.

Not included in this slew, Ley's zoological and cryptozoological essays and his forays into chemistry (comparable to the 4 element series by Asimov). A few of Ley's essays are hard to classify (history of smoking, forgeries [the Dvur Králové manuscript], puzzles).

GENESIS, POSITIONAL ASTRONOMY, SYNCHRONIZATION AND TIME RECKONING

Willy Ley_Calendar Troubles
Willy Ley_The Days of the Week
Willy Ley_Names in the Sky
Willy Ley_The Forerunners of the Planetarium
Willy Ley_The Southern Cross (Dante and the Scriptures)
Willy Ley_The Variable Date of Easter (Q&A snippet)
Willy Ley_Absconded Milliseconds (Q&A snippet)

AU 000 THE DEATH OF THE SUN

Willy Ley_Death of the Sun

AU 007 VENUS, MERCURY AND VULCAN

Willy Ley_Observation of the Inner Planets
Willy Ley_The Moon of Venus
Willy Ley_The Planet Vulcan (Q&A snippet)
Willy Ley_Unveiling the Mystery Planet

AU 010 EARTH

Willy Ley_Cause of the Ice Age
Willy Ley_OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion)
Willy Ley_Remnants of the Sarmantian Sea
Willy Ley_The Home-Made Land
Willy Ley_The Strait Named after Vitus Bering

AU 010 EARTH_CURIOSA

Willy Ley_Antikhthon
Willy Ley_Hollow Earth
Willy Ley_The Magic Mountain (the Loadstone Legend)
Willy Ley_The Great Pyramid, the Golden Section and Pi
Willy Ley_The Book of Enoch (Q&A snippet)

AU 010 EARTH_THALASSA

Willy Ley - Thalassa 1: The Strange Planet Next Door
Willy Ley - Thalassa 2: Monsters of the Deep
Willy Ley - My Friend, the Nautilus
Willy Ley - Decompressed Deep Sea Fish (Q&A snippet)

AU 010 EARTH_THE MOON

Willy Ley_Moon Mysteries
Willy Ley_The Air on the Moon
Willy Ley_The Other Side of the Moon (Hansen's Moon)
Willy Ley_Perceived Size of the Moon (Q&A snippet)

AU 015 MARS

Willy Ley_Close-Up on Mars (synodic periods)
Willy Ley_The Year on Mars (Leap Years) Jan 56 (Q&A snippet)
Willy Ley_The Year on Mars (Leap Years) Sep 56
Willy Ley_How to Get Around on other Planets
Willy Ley_Life on Mars and Elsewhere

AU 015 MARS_PHOBOS & DEIMOS

Willy Ley_Small Bodies Near Heavy Planets
Willy Ley_The 'Martian Space Stations'

AU 030 ASTEROIDS

Willy Ley_Asteroid Roundup (Discovery of Eros)

AU 030 ASTEROIDS_THE SKY IS FALLING

Willy Ley_Meteorite Falls (casulties)
Willy Ley_The Meteoric Stream
Willy Ley_The Sound of Meteorites
Willy Ley_When Will Worlds Collide
Willy Ley_Meteors, Meteoroids and Meteorites(Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_Ice Meteorites (Q&A Snippet)

AU 052 THE RED SPOT OF JUPITER

Willy Ley_Jupiter's Red Spot

AU 052 THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS AND THE MOONS

Willy Ley_The Redesigned Solar System (Farewell to all that)
Willy Ley_The Solar System and its Moons
Willy Ley_Who'll Own the Planets

AU 400 A DWARF PLANET CALLED PLUTO

Willy Ley_The Demotion of Pluto
Willy Ley_Moonless Pluto (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_The Diameter of Pluto (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_The Near Discovery of Pluto in 1919 (Q&A Snippet)

AU 800 COMETS

Willy Ley_Mission to a Comet
Willy Ley_The Orbits of the Comets
Willy Ley_The Worst of All Comets

AU 800 COMETS_TUNGUSKA

Willy Ley_Too Much Imagination

NEWTON EARTH TUNNELS

Willy Ley_Earth Tunnels
Willy Ley_Mutant of the Iron Horse
Willy Ley_Flying Anvils (Canards and Mares' Nests)

NEWTON LAGRANGE POINTS AND GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES

Willy Ley_Earth's Extra Satellites
Willy Ley_Earth's Other Moons
Willy Ley_Interplanetary Communications
Willy Ley_Lagrange Points
Willy Ley_The Trojan Planets
Willy Ley_Synchronous Satellite (Q&A Snippet)

NEWTON HOHMANN ORBITS

Philip Latham_The Aphrodite Project
Willy Ley_Second Trip to Venus

NEWTON ROCKET SCIENCE, PRECURSORS

Willy Ley_Friar Bertholdus
Willy Ley_Greek Fire
Willy Ley_Who Invented the Crossbow
Willy Ley_2000 Year Old Car Batteries
(The Elements of Khujut Rabu'a and Ctesiphon)

NEWTON ROCKET SCIENCE, THE ROCKET EQUATION

Willy Ley_Rocket Fuels
Willy Ley_The Why of Liquid Propellants (1932)

NEWTON ROCKET SCIENCE, ROCKETS VS GUNS

Willy Ley_Busy Lizzy (WWII Guns)
Willy Ley_Rocket to the Moon (2 pp. missing)
Willy Ley_The Biggest Guns (Q&A Snippet)

NEWTON ROCKET SCIENCE, HISTORY

Willy Ley_Eight Days in the Story of Rocketry (2 pp. missing)
Willy Ley_Eugen Sänger and the Rocket Propelled Airplane
Willy Ley_Mail by Rocket
Willy Ley_Missing Ingredient (Rockets in 1906)
Willy Ley_On Rockets and Their History
Willy Ley_Space Travel by 1960
Willy Ley_The How of Space Travel
Willy Ley_The End of the Jet Age
Willy Ley_The Orbital Satellite Vehicle
Willy Ley_Motor or Engine (Q&A Snippet)

NEWTON SPACE STATIONS

Willy Ley_The Birth of the Space Station (The Noordnung Vision)

VAR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE FOR SF WRITERS
(Ley's version of the Real Dope)

Willy Ley_Ice Cubes and Hot Water
Willy Ley_The Iron Pillar of Dehli (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_Lost Messier Objects (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_Red Shift (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_Seeing Stars in Broad Daylight (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_Cosmic Rays (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_Amne Machin (Disinformation Snippet)
Willy Ley_Henri Moissan's Synthetic Diamonds (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_Human Ultraviolet Vision (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_Poincaré and Einstein (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_A Live Recording of the Sermon of the Mount (Q&A Snippet)

VAR LIFE BEFORE DARWIN (BESTIARIES, BEM VERSUS ET)

Willy Ley_Dragons and Hot Air Balloons
Willy Ley_Giants in Those Days
Willy Ley_How to Slay Dragons
Willy Ley_Let's Build an Extraterrestrial
Willy Ley_Midnight Marvels
Willy Ley_The Birth of Superstition
Willy Ley_The Case of the Lying Stones
Willy Ley_The Bumblebee Bugler (Canards and Mares' Nests)
Willy Ley_The Deadly Trees (Canards and Mares' Nests)
Willy Ley_The Supersonic Bot Fly (Canards and Mares' Nests)

VAR LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS

Willy Ley_Extraterrestral Bacteria (1943)
Willy Ley_Is Artificial Life Possible (Urey-Miller Experiment)
Willy Ley_Other Life than Oursl
Willy Ley_Extra Solar Planets (in 1962)
Willy Ley_Extra Solar Planets and Intelligence (Ley's Equation) (Q&A)

VAR SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE AND SETI

Willy Ley_How Will You Talk to the Martians
Willy Ley_The Intractable Prime Number
Willy Ley_The Written Word
Willy Ley_The Island of the Stone Heads (Rongorongo)

WILLY LEY, LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND NOTATION

Willy Ley_The Early Days of the Metric System
Willy Ley_The Fahrenheit Scale (Q&A Snippet)
Willy Ley_One Planet One Language

WILLY LEY, FYI IN RETROSPECT AND OUTLOOK

Willy Ley_The World in 2052
Willy Ley_Thirteen Years of FYI
Willy Ley_On Frozen Words and Irate Schoolmarms (Q&A Snippet)

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