 Or if neither of these ways will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it, as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made...  American Quarterly Review - Page 52edited by - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Zora Prica - Robinsonades - 1909 - 76 pages
...yards at a time." Dr John Wilkins beteuert weiter „yet I do seriously, and upon good ground affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man...motion unto it, as shall convey him through the air. — I conceive it were no difficult matter (if a man had leisure) to shew more particularly the means... | |
 | Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Astronomy - 1919 - 776 pages
...CURTIS ". . Yet I do seriously, and upon good Grounds aflirm it possible to make a Flying-Chariot; in which a Man may sit, and give such a Motion unto...with Food for their Viaticum, and Commodities for Traffick. . So that notwithstanding all these seeming Impossibilities, 'tis likely enough, that there... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Natural history - 1900 - 450 pages
...for a man to fly himself; it being easy from the same ground to frame an instrument wherein anyone may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him aloft through the air." 12. Chapters VII. and VIII. treat on the several ways whereby the art of flying... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...by The Seattle Daily Times, May 7, 1962, p. 2. 1744 Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may...their viaticum and commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable... | |
 | Carl Zimmer - Brain - 2004 - 382 pages
...firmament, but a craggy ball of stone. Wilkins hoped people might some day journey to it in a flying-chariot "in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it, as shall convey him through the air." The Earth, far from being the center of the universe, was a planet just like Venus or Mars, revolving... | |
 | Ilse Vickers - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 224 pages
...had conjectured: 'I do seriously, and upon good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying-chariot; in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it, as shall convey him through the air' (Wilkins, 1640: 238). Most likely inspired by Wilkins, Morton had suggested that 'Artificiall wings... | |
 | Lucy Rogers - Mathematics - 2008 - 358 pages
...mid17th century. At the end of the book he states: Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may...perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers [sic] men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic. It is... | |
 | Books - 1828 - 402 pages
...eagle. " Or if neither of these ways will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man...their viaticum, and commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of any thing in this kind, that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable... | |
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