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 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1920 - Страниц: 934
...the two parts of the inquiry is stated with great succinctness in a passage in the Codice Atlantico : "A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical...capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, thoueh it is deficient only in the power of maintaining... | |
 | Arthur James Anderson - 1912 - Страниц: 370
...carefully, as the model for our machine." " Therefore you study the flight of birds ? " " Certainly ! For a bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is possible for man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1920 - Страниц: 644
...manuscripts. The conviction grew on him that men might raise themselves above the earth on wings, for : "A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical...capacity of man to reproduce, with all its movements, but not with a 19 M. Baratta, Leonardo da Vinci, ed i problemi delta Terra, Turin, 1903. 20 O. Siren,... | |
 | Evelyn Charles Vivian - 1921 - Страниц: 658
...devoting some lengthy periods to observations of bird flight. ' A bird,' he says in his Treatise, ' is an instrument working according to mathematical...capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in power of maintaining... | |
 | Ivor Blashka Hart, Walter Laidler - 1923 - Страниц: 308
...secrets of flight. ' A bird,' writes he, ' is an instrument working according to mathematical Jaw, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree oi strength though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining... | |
 | Royal Aeronautical Society - 1923 - Страниц: 682
..." A bird," writes he, " is an instrument working according to mathematical law, an instrument which it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, though not with a corresponding degree of strength, for it is deficient in the power of maintaining... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1924 - Страниц: 674
...parts of the enquiry is stated with great succinctness in a passage in the Codice Atlantico : — " ' A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical...capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1924 - Страниц: 684
...parts of the enquiry is stated with great succinctness in a passage in the Codice Atlantico : — " ' A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the rapacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength,... | |
 | Walter Francis Fairfax Shearcroft, William Francis Fairfax Shearcroft - 1925 - Страниц: 200
...example, says, " A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, an instrument which it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements." To the investigation of these mathematical laws he made valuable contributions. Bresnier, working along... | |
 | Cecil Leonard Morley Brown - 1927 - Страниц: 154
...and studied the flight of birds. ' A bird ', he wrote, ' is an instrument working in accordance with mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce. . . .' 1 It is wellnigh impossible to exaggerate the importance of this seemingly simple statement.... | |
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