Branley Franklyn Wimmer Helmut (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good/No Dj. Drawings, Figures (illustrator). Sixth. 8vo Clean text with edge stamps and cover-board crease. Very good reading, research copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.

Hardcover. Wimmer, Helmut K. (illustrator). First edition. First printing [stated]. [8], 126 p. 23 cm. Illustrations, Charts. For Further Reading. Index. From an on-line posting: "Franklyn M. Branley was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1915. He received degrees from New York University, the State University of New York at Paltz, and Columbia University. In the mid-1930s, as Branley began his elementary and secondary school teaching career, science education for children was a new venture. Only a few course materials existed to explain science to children, and many instructors did not teach it at all. Branley coauthored a teaching pamphlet for elementary science instruction and began his career writing for professional journals and children's magazines. Branley regretted that many schools waited until junior years to teach science to children who had already become "cynical sophisticates." He instead promoted the idea of exposing children as young as preschool age to the excitement of science, believing younger children more capable of grasping scientific principles than people gave them credit for. Between 1947 and 1957 Branley coauthored nine "experiment series" books, designed to allow children to use common household objects to learn about topics as diverse as airplane instruction, microscopes, optical illusions, and electricity. In 1956 Branley became an associate astronomer and director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium in New York City. His books immediately began to focus more on astronomy and the newly developing space frontier. Interestingly, his first work in these fields, Exploring by Satellite (1957), was published one day after the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellite. In the 1960s, Branley founded and co-edited the "Lets-Read-and-Find-Out-About-Science" books, a highly successful series explaining scientific principles to early readers. Branley also received many literary awards, including the Edison Award for the Outstanding Children's Science Book of 1961, Experiments in Sky Watching." From Wikipedia: "Helmut Wimmer was a painter who, as the staff artist for New York's Hayden Planetarium from 1954 to 1987, created representations of cosmic vistas which were used during the planetarium shows. Born in Munich, at the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a sculptor and architectural model maker. Taken as prisoner of war by the Russians while serving in the German army, his talents were noticed and he was assigned to a team tasked with the repair of the ornamental plaster works of the government buildings in Gorky. In addition to work used in planetarium shows, Wimmer provided illustrations for numerous astronomy books and text books, and his work frequently appeared in the American Museum's Natural History magazine. Of particular note is his 1971 illustration for Physics Today, entitled Artist's Rendition of a Black Hole-a "colorful schematic concept of black hole phenomena [which] has been copied extensively, sometimes without proper credit." He also designed an educational children's board game entitled "Space Hop", which was published by Teaching Concepts in 1973. The game taught players about the sun and its planets, moons, comets and asteroids." Fair in fair dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has wear, soiling, tears and chips. Small tears/chips to top of fep and title page.