Author: MAREY, E.J.
Title: La machine animale. Locomotion terrestre et aérienne.
Description: Paris, Libr. G. Baillière, 1873. W. 117 woodc. in the text. Original red publisher's cloth, gilt. (Sp. some discol.,sl. rubb.). DSB IX, p. 101/3: '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 de 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 forward 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: Guernsheim p. 325: Rotschuh, Gesch. d. Phys. p. 167: First ed. of this work mentioning his first experiments in chronophotography to record animal and human movement. One of the basic publications on the flight of birds, inspiring the first experiments to fly.

Keywords: aeronautics photography aviation Z10