Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 24
e whatever of the various and distinctoases. Soon after Bacons time, projects were institutedto train up children from their infancy in the exerciseof flying with artificial wings, which seems to havebeen the favourite plan of the flying philosophers andartists of that day. If we may credit the… … FAC-SIMILE OF A PAGE IX THE XOTE-BOOK OF LEONARDO DA VINCI. 6 TRAVELS IN SPACE. celerity. This was accomplished by the combinedfaculties of running and flying. It is related that byan alternately continued motion of the wings againstthe air and the feet against the ground, they wereenabled to move…
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