Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics (1874)
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · New York : D. Appleton & company · leaf 66
maintained. Thuseach fore limb assumes, as it alights, the advanced positionparallel with the hind, just released and moving; the hindfeet move by turns, in sequence to their diagonal fore, and inpriority to their parallel fellows, which following they main-tain for nearly half their course, when… … Fio. 20.—Horse in the act of trotting. In this, as in all the other paces,tlie body of the horse is levered forward by a diagonal twisting of the trunkand extremities, the extremities describing a tigure-of-8 track (s u, r t).The ligiire-of-8 is produced by the alternate play of the extremities and…
Animal locomotion · Aeronautics
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