Animal Locomotion: Or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying, with a Dissertation on AëronauticsH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 264 páginas |
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... flexible helices or screws , which , in virtue of their rapid reciprocating move- ments , operate upon the water and air by a wedge - action after the manner of twisted or double inclined planes . The twisted inclined planes act upon ...
... flexible helices or screws , which , in virtue of their rapid reciprocating move- ments , operate upon the water and air by a wedge - action after the manner of twisted or double inclined planes . The twisted inclined planes act upon ...
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... flexibility of the foot contribute greatly to the rapidity 1 The woodpeckers climb by the aid of the stiff feathers of their tails ; the legs and tail forming a firm basis of support . 2 In this order there are certain birds - the ...
... flexibility of the foot contribute greatly to the rapidity 1 The woodpeckers climb by the aid of the stiff feathers of their tails ; the legs and tail forming a firm basis of support . 2 In this order there are certain birds - the ...
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... flexible stem - like bodies , which depend from the anterior ventral aspect of the animal , the siren having in the same region two pairs of rudimentary limbs furnished with four imper- fect toes , while the proteus has anterior ...
... flexible stem - like bodies , which depend from the anterior ventral aspect of the animal , the siren having in the same region two pairs of rudimentary limbs furnished with four imper- fect toes , while the proteus has anterior ...
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... bodied fishes , as the eels , and decreased in those whose bodies are short or are comparatively devoid of flexibility . In pro- portion as the curves into which the body is thrown PROGRESSION ON AND IN THE WATER . 71.
... bodied fishes , as the eels , and decreased in those whose bodies are short or are comparatively devoid of flexibility . In pro- portion as the curves into which the body is thrown PROGRESSION ON AND IN THE WATER . 71.
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... flexible , and more or less elastic posterior margin . They are screw structures , and when elevated and depressed in the water , twist and untwist , screw - fashion , precisely as wings do , or the tails of the fish , whale , dugong ...
... flexible , and more or less elastic posterior margin . They are screw structures , and when elevated and depressed in the water , twist and untwist , screw - fashion , precisely as wings do , or the tails of the fish , whale , dugong ...
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action aërial albatross angle animals arms and legs arrangement artificial wave artificial wing ascends backwards ball-and-socket joint bat and bird biped blades body bones Borelli Compare with fig concave convex Crown 8vo depressed described downward dugong elastic ligaments elbow-joint elevating and propelling ellipse elytra extended feet fins fish flexed flexible flexion flight flying foot force gannet glide hind horizontal direction humerus inclined planes increased insect wing joint kite less lever limbs locomotion long axis manner Marey motion move movements muscles muscular muscular system natural wing nervures oblique oscillate ostrich pectoral fins pinion porpoise portion position posterior margin posterior or thin produced quadruped rapid remarkable resistance right arm root rotation sail screw sea-bear shoulder-joint side speed spiral swimming tail thick margin tion travelling surfaces trunk twisting universal joint upward direction upwards and forwards velocity vertical vibrate walking waved track weight wing descends
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