Animal Locomotion: Or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying, with a Dissertation on Aëronautics |
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action aërial albatross animal arms and legs arrangement artificial wave artificial wing ascends ball-and-socket joint bat and bird biped blades body bones Borelli Cheaper Edition Compare with fig concave Demy 8vo depressed described downward dugong elastic band elastic ligaments elbow-joint elevating and propelling elytra extended extremities Fcap feet fish flexed flexible flexion flight flying foot Frontispiece gannet horizontal direction humerus Illustrations inclined planes increased insect insect wing joint kite less lever long axis manner Marey motion move movements muscles muscular natural wing oblique pectoral fins pinion porpoise portions posterior margin posterior or thin produced quadruped rapidity resistance rigid root rotation sail screw Second Edition shoulder-joint side Sir George Cayley Small crown 8vo speed spiral swimming tail thick margin Third Edition tion trunk twisting universal joint upward direction upwards and forwards vellum velocity vertical vibrate vols walking waved track wedge weight
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