Animal Mechanism: A Treatise on Terrestrial and Aerial LocomotionHenry S. King & Company, 1874 - 283 стор. |
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... nature of this phenomenon - Analogies between the discharge of electrical apparatus and the shock of a muscle - Electric tetanus - Rapidity of the nervous agent in the electrical nerves of the torpedo ; duration of its discharge CHAPTER ...
... nature of this phenomenon - Analogies between the discharge of electrical apparatus and the shock of a muscle - Electric tetanus - Rapidity of the nervous agent in the electrical nerves of the torpedo ; duration of its discharge CHAPTER ...
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... nature of the acts which it has to perform - A similar muscle , in different species of animals , presents differences of form , if the function which it has to fulfil in these different species is not the same - Variety of pectoral ...
... nature of the acts which it has to perform - A similar muscle , in different species of animals , presents differences of form , if the function which it has to fulfil in these different species is not the same - Variety of pectoral ...
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... nature , which will often show him how the most complicated problems may be solved with admirable simplicity . Animal mechanics is a wide field for exploration . To every function , so to speak , a special machinery is attached . The ...
... nature , which will often show him how the most complicated problems may be solved with admirable simplicity . Animal mechanics is a wide field for exploration . To every function , so to speak , a special machinery is attached . The ...
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... nature in the con- struction of the machinery of navigation . If the hull of the ship is , as it has been justly described , formed on the model of the aquatic fowl , if the sail has been copied from the wing of the swan inflated by the ...
... nature in the con- struction of the machinery of navigation . If the hull of the ship is , as it has been justly described , formed on the model of the aquatic fowl , if the sail has been copied from the wing of the swan inflated by the ...
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... nature and experiment have not furnished the precise data which alone can serve as a sound starting point for calculations of this kind . We shall then attempt to analyse the rapid acts which are produced in the flight of insects and of ...
... nature and experiment have not furnished the precise data which alone can serve as a sound starting point for calculations of this kind . We shall then attempt to analyse the rapid acts which are produced in the flight of insects and of ...
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