Animal Locomotion or Walking, Swimming, and FlyingBoD – Books on Demand, 2023/05/16 - 296 ページ Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. |
目次
ANIMAL LOCOMOTION | 1 |
Flight a more unstable movement than that of walking | 7 |
Flight the least fatiguing kind of motion Aërial creatures | 13 |
The three orders of lever | 21 |
Muscular cycles Centripetal and centrifugal movements | 28 |
ties | 34 |
Locomotion of the Ostrich | 45 |
PROGRESSION IN OR THROUGH THE | 103 |
THE WINGS OF BATS | 176 |
The wing of the bird not always opened up to the same extent | 182 |
Speed attained by insects | 188 |
176 | 195 |
The balloon | 209 |
The aërial screw | 215 |
Mareys views | 226 |
Chabriers views | 233 |
Weight necessary to flight | 110 |
How balancing is effected in flight | 118 |
The wing area variable and in excess | 124 |
The wing area decreases as the size and weight of the volant | 132 |
The wing during its action reverses its planes and describes | 140 |
The margins of the wing thrown into opposite curves during | 146 |
THE WINGS OF INSECTS BATS AND BIRDS | 170 |
How to construct an artificial wave wing on the insect type | 240 |
As to the nature of the forces required for propelling artificial | 246 |
How the wave wing creates currents and rises upon them | 253 |
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