Home, the distinguished anatomist, it is found that this is the very process by which Flies and other insects of a similar description are enabled to walk up perpendicular surfaces, however smooth, as the sides of walls and panes of glass in windows,... The London Magazine - Page 5751827Full view - About this book
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 446 pages
...it with the weight of above two hundredweight, that is, near fifteen pounds on every square inch of the hand. Now, by a late most curious discovery of...to walk as easily along the ceiling of a room with their bodies downwards and their feet over head. Their feet, when examined by a microscope, are found... | |
| 1828 - 484 pages
...pressed on it with the weight of above two hundred weight, that is, near 15 Ibs. on every square inch of the hand. Now, by a late most curious discovery of...to walk as easily along the ceiling of a room with their bodies downwards and their feet over head. Their feet, when examined by a microscope, are found... | |
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