Author: MAREY, E.J.-
Title: La machine animale. Locomotion terrestre et aérienne.
Description: Paris, Baillière, 1873. 117 woodcuts. Original publ. cl., spine and covers gilt. (Spine some discol.; upper outer hinge top and bottom weakening.). (X, 299 pp.). (as usual some occasional spotting & foxing.). DSB IX, 101/103: 'After 1868,...he turned.to...the study of human and animal locomotion. Using traces of the motions of bird and insect wings, Marey showed that changes in the form of the wing modify its air-resistance properties; rather than contracting the wing flexora and extensor muscles, this surface change accounts for much of the upward and foreward motion of the flying animal. By this means Marey determined the mechanical requirements for the physiological apparatus of flight.': Liebmann-Wahl nr 1320: Brockett 8028: Gernsheim pp. 325: First edition of this work mentioning his first experience in chronophotography, the first use of the principle of moving pictures.

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