 There are four several ways whereby this flying in the air hath been, or may be attempted. Two of them by the strength of other things, and two of them by our own strength. 1 . By spirits, or angels.  Aerial Navigation - Página 191por Charles Blachford Mansfield - 1877 - 513 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Wilkins - 1802 - 292 páginas
...engagement to some fuller disquisitions and conjectures to that purpose. There are four several ways whereby this flying in the air hath been, or may be...the strength of other things, and two of them by our owo strength. 1 . By spirits, or angels. 2. By the help of fowls. 3. By wings fastened immediately... | |
 | John Wilkins - 1802 - 374 páginas
...conjectures to that purpose. There are four several ways whereby this flying in the air hath been, 01 may be attempted. Two of them by the strength of other things, and two of them by our owo strength. 1 . By spirits, or angels. 2. By the help of fowls. 3. By wings fastened immediately... | |
 | Charles Cyril Turner - 1910 - 418 páginas
...Mechanical Motion," in which he set forth the several ways by which flying had been, or might be attempted : 1. By spirits or angels. 2. By the help of fowls. 3. By wings fastened immediately to the body. 4. By flying chariots. The second method refers to the fabulous... | |
 | Charles Cyril Turner - 1917 - 352 páginas
...Motions," in which he set forth the several ways by which flying had been, or might be attempted : 1. By spirits or angels. 2. By the help of fowls. 3. By wings fastened immediately to the body. 4. By flying chariots. The second method refers to the fabulous... | |
 | Florence Elizabeth Wallace - 1927 - 594 páginas
...honor of producing the first flying-man. "There are," declared John Wilkins in 1648, "four several ways whereby this flying in the air hath been or may be...other things, and two of them by our own strength, i. By spirits, or angels. 2. By the help of fowls. 3. By wings fastened immediately to the body. 4.... | |
 | Berthold Laufer - 1928 - 138 páginas
...toward arousing public interest in the problem of flight. He distinguishes (p. 199) "four several ways whereby this flying in the air hath been or may be...spirits or angels. 2. By the help of fowls. 3. By wings fastened immediately to the body. 4. By a flying chariot." This fourth and last way seems to... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1918 - 428 páginas
..."Volant Automata" Bishop Wilkins discusses four chief types of effort for the conquest of the air: (1) By spirits, or angels. (2) By the help of fowls. (3) By wings fastened immediately to the body. (4) By a flying chariot. It is evidently the fourth of these... | |
 | Arthur C. Clarke - 2001 - 596 páginas
...scale of the universe. John Wilkins, in 1638, listed the four possible means of flight as follows: "(1) By spirits, or angels. (2) By the help of fowls. (3) By wings fastened immediately to the body. (4) By a flying chariot." Miss Nicholson uses this classification... | |
 | Bayla Singer - 2003 - 244 páginas
...endless possibilities. Wilkins, ever systematic, offers four general classes of possible human flight: 1. By Spirits or Angels 2. By the help of fowls 3. By wings fastned [sic] immediately to the body 4. By a flying Chariot.38 In the first group, reports of... | |
 | 110 páginas
...John Wilkins, in 1638, elaborated slightly on these ideas, stating that "There are four several ways whereby this flying in the air hath been or may be...spirits, or angels. 2. By the help of fowls. 3. By wings fastened immediately to the body. 4. By a flying chariot." The great astronomer, Johannes Kepler,... | |
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