Animal Locomotion: Or, Walking, Swimming and Flying, with a Dissertation on Aëronautics

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D. Appleton, 1893 - Aeronautics - 264 pages
 

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action aërial albatross angle animal arms and legs arrangement artificial wave artificial wing ascends backwards bat and bird biped blades body bones Borelli Compare with fig concave depressed described downward dugong effective stroke elastic ligaments elbow-joint elevating and propelling ellipse elytra extended feet fins fish flexed flexible flexion flight flying foot force gannet glide hind horizontal direction humerus inclined planes increased insect wing joint kite less lever limbs locomotion long axis manner Marey motion move movements muscles muscular muscular system natural wing nervures oblique oscillate pectoral fins pinion porpoise portion position posterior extremities posterior margin posterior or thin produced quadruped rapidity remarkable resistance reverse right arm root rotation sail screw sea-bear shoulder-joint side speed spiral swimming tail thick margin travelling surfaces trunk twisting universal joint upward direction upwards and forwards velocity vertical vertical direction vibrate walking waved track weight wing descends

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TitleAnimal Locomotion: Or, Walking, Swimming and Flying, with a Dissertation on Aëronautics
Volume 7 of International scientific series
AuthorJames Bell Pettigrew
Edition4
PublisherD. Appleton, 1893
Original fromUniversity of Iowa
DigitizedApr 22, 2015
Length264 pages
  
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