A text-book of physics, largely experimental. On the Harvard college "Descriptive list of elementary physical experiments." (1891)
Hall, Edwin Herbert, 1855-1938, Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917 · New York, H. Holt and Company · leaf 138
of the keel, and theresulting motion carries the boatobliquely toward that quarter fromwhich the wind is blowing. QUESTION. Can a boat sail toward the wind whenbhe sail is parallel to the keel? [It is said that ice-boats, that is,boats driven by wind across fields of smooth ice, sometimes sail… … 8 W S
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