Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 339
STRENGTH AND SKILI- The thrower waits calmly till the boomerang, having accom-plished its work of destruction, returns, describing an ellipse,and falls at the spot (or at the most a few paces from it)from which it was discharged. Very few boomerangs have been brought to Europe,and, indeed, very… … The Boomerang describing its Ellipse. found. The case of the boomerang proves clearly that themost simple laws of nature have not, even among civilisednations, been sufficiently utilised. And it is not flatter-ing to our amour-propre that this lesson in mechanics comesto us from Australia, from a…
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