Books with author Robert Mueller III

How has man extend his vision through the ages? Where will he send his television eyes in space? What unusual sights can we expect to see there? These and many other interesting questions are answered in this book as it describes man's attempts to extend his vision in space: from Galileo's telescope; balloon observations from the Montgolfier brothers' simple fire-fed balloon to the modern helium gas Skyhook balloons with television controls; Tiros and Nimbus weather satellites; U.S. Explorers and Russian Cosmos and Electron satellites; the OAO or Orbiting Astronomical Observatory to lift telescopes aloft; Luniks and Rangers and the future Moon Laboratory's spectacular view; planet fly-bys and roving vehicles that carry our vision to Venus and Mars and the planets beyond; Helios and Pioneers seeking the sun, chasing comets; and, who knows, spacecraft that venture into the deepest reaches of the heavens. This book will lift your mind's eye into space where you can visualize what your eyes will soon see and be prepared to understand better all future space sights.

I enter directly into a fabulous music-instrument realm. It will take considerable suspensions of disbelief to enjoy my fables (since many human-instrument crossovers happen), yet I think it a suitable suspension. To the extent that my music fables are portraits of various music instruments (and composers, conductors, instrument makers), they should confirm what experience has taught and suggest musical allegories newcomers could not imagine. Seen from inside music, from the standpoint of musical instruments, musical compositions have a different reality and a renewed sense of existence.