Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 437
nraising it into the air.—Do you not remember, when I ad-justed the noose in the belly-band, I stated that much de-pended upon this part of the apparatus ? You will at onceperceive that it will influence the angle which the kite formawith the earth; and I am about to prove to you that thetheory of… … The kite here appears in the act of rising from the ground,the line w will represent the direction of the wind blowing MADE 6CIKNCE IN P:AKNEST. 157 upon it, all the currents of which we will suppose united inone; it is evident, from what has been already stated, thatas it falls upon an oblique…
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