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Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics

Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · 1874 · New York : D. Appleton & company · 80 pictures

A scientific treatise on animal locomotion by anatomist James Bell Pettigrew, published in New York by D. Appleton in 1874 for naturalists and early aeronautical experimenters. Wood-engraved figures show birds with wings spread, wingbeat paths traced in dotted lines and arrows, and lettered diagrams of flight geometry, useful as motion notation and labelled anatomical line art.

Animal locomotion · Aeronautics

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