Wonders of bodily strength and skill : in all ages and all countries (1873)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 341
STRENGTH AND SKILL, 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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