 A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the 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...  Nature - Stran 342uredili: - 1920Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Arthur James Anderson - 1912 - 370 strani
...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 - 644 strani
...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...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, Leonardo da... | |
 | Evelyn Charles Vivian - 1921 - 658 strani
...devoting some lengthy periods to observations of bird flight. ' A bird,' he says in his Treatise, ' is an instrument working according to mathematical...movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in power of maintaining equilibrium. We may say, therefore, that such an... | |
 | Ivor Blashka Hart, Walter Laidler - 1923 - 308 strani
...secrets of flight. ' A bird,' writes he, ' is an instrument working according to mathematical Jaw, which instrument it is within the capacity of man...its movements, but not with a corresponding degree oi strength though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say... | |
 | Royal Aeronautical Society - 1923 - 682 strani
..." 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 - 674 strani
...capable of sustaining and being worked by man. The inter-dependence of the two parts of the enquiry is stated with great succinctness in a passage in...movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1924 - 684 strani
...capable of sustaining and being worked by man. The inter-dependence of the two parts of the enquiry is stated with great succinctness in a passage in...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 - 200 strani
...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 - 154 strani
...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.... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 strani
...parts of the inquiry is stated with great succinctness in a passage in the Codice Atlantico (161 ra) : A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical...movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such... | |
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