Another Look At Atlantis and Fifteen Other Essays

248 Pages·1969·35.31 MB·English

by  Willy Ley

ANOTHER
LOOK
ATLANTIS
and fifteen other essays by
Willy Ley
WH
Willy Ley
Atlantis, a new look at a lost conti-
nent the building of the Great
. . .
Pyramid the dodos, the moas and
. . .
the pangolins the sound of
. . .
meteors the legal question of who
...
will ownthe planets these arejust
. . .
a few of the subjects discussed in
this new collection of sixteen sci-
ence and natural history essays by
Willy Ley.
Whether discussing the possibil-
ity that the giant ground sloth is
really not extinct but alive and
healthy in South America, or how to
salvage a hundred and ten million
dollar treasure ship off the coast of
Holland, Willy Ley is always in-
formative and entertaining.

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Another Look at Atlantis
AND FIFTEEN OTHER ESSAYS
Books by Willy Ley
ANOTHER LOOK AT ATLANTIS
AND FIFTEEN OTIIER ESSAYS
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
ROCKETS, MISSILES AND MEN IN SPACE
WATCHERS OF TnE SKY
engineer's DREAMS
EXOTIC ZOOLOGY
THE CONQUEST OF SPACE
THE EXPLORATION OF MARS
(with Wernher von Braun)
BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
DAWN OF ZOOLOGY
DISCOVERY OF THE ELEMENTS
MISSILES, MOONPROBES AND MEGAPARSECS
RANGER TO THE MOON
MARINER TO MARS
THE BORDERS OF MATHEMATICS
ON EARTH AND IN THE SKY
TRANSLATIONS
I
THE MOON CAR
OTTO HAHN,
A SCIENTIFIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Another Look at Atlantis
AND FIFTEEN OTHER ESSAYS
BY WILLY LEY
BELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
NEW YORK
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Contents
Introduction by Lester del Rey vii
1. Another Look at Atlantis 1
2. The Wreck of La Lutine 16
3. The Great Pyramid, the Golden Section and Pi 27
Who
4. Invented the Crossbow? 42
5. Dead or Alive? 57
6. A Century of New Animals 68
7. Largest of Their Kind 80
A
8. Pangolin Is a Pangolin 90
9. Hunting the Dodo/Other Islands, Other Dodos 100
10. The Last of the Moas 128
11. Let's Build an Extraterrestrial! 140
12. The Laws of Utter Chaos 155
13. The Sound of the Meteors 170
14. Who'll Own the Planets? 180
15. Death of the Sun 194
16. The Re-Designed Solar System 215