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TSIOLKOVSKY, KONSTANTIN EDUARDOVICH. Issledovanie mirovykh prostranstv reaktivnymi priborami [exploration of space using reactive devices].autograph manuscript fragment signed, written in cursive script in purple ink on gray-green paper, with seven technical drawings. [13] leaves. 210x148 mm, crudely side-stitched, partly loose, some edgewear; scattered stains, top portion torn off last leaf with loss of several lines of text. Kaluga, 1913
Draft fragment from the final part of a seminal paper by the pioneer theoretician of space flight and interplanetary travel, which was published in 3 parts from 1903 to 1914. "In 'Issledovanie mirovykh prostranstv reaktivnymi priborami' . . . Tsiolkovsky set forth his theory of the motion of rockets, established the possibility of space travel by means of rockets, and adduced the fundamental flight formulas"--DSB XIII, 483.
