Animal locomotion, or, walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics / by J. Bell Pettigrew.

  • James Bell Pettigrew
Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Animal locomotion, or, walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics / by J. Bell Pettigrew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and other countries, there is reason to believe that our knowledge of this most difficult de])artment of science will go on increasing until the knotty problem is finally solved. If this day should ever come, it will not be too much to affirm, that it will inaugurate a new era in the history of mankind ; and that great as the destiny of our race has been hitherto, it will be quite out-lustred by the grandeur and magnitude of commg events.