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3 Books by Auguste Piccard Author: Piccard, Auguste Place: Publisher: Date: 1933-1950 Description: Three volumes comprising: Au Dessus Des Nuages [Above the Clouds]. Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset, 1933. 269 pp. Illustrated with 32 heliogravure photographs. Wrappers (foxed). Second Printing. Entre Terre Et Ciel / Realites / Visions d’Avenir [Between Earth and Sky / Realities/ Visions of the Future]. Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions Douchy, [1946]. 296 pp. Illustrated with 48? /60 photographs and 15 text drawings. Decorative wrappers. Between Earth And Sky. London: Falcon Press, 1950. 137 pp. Translated by Claude Apcher. Illustrated. Original cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Seton McConnell. First Edition in English. With the bookplate of eminent Canadian Psychiatrist Clarence B. Farrar. In May 1931, Piccard and his German engineer associate were the first humans to enter and explore the stratosphere, some 10 miles above the earth, ascending by balloon in a spherical, pressurized aluminum gondola that allowed their ascent without requiring a pressure suit. They were able to gather data on the upper atmosphere, measuring cosmic rays – the start of 25 years of upper atmosphere research. It’s widely believed that Star Trek’s Captain Picard was so named as a tribute to Auguste Piccard and his twin brother and fellow scientist, Jean Felix Lot Amendments Condition: Good to very good. Item number: 319660