Animal mechanism : a treatise on terrestrial and aerial locomotion
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0017 - Page 1 - Animal mechanism : terrestrial and aerial locomotion. Introduction
0021 - Page 5 - Book the first. Chapter I : Forces and organs
Fig. 1. Showing the transformation of the electricity of a battery into mechanical action, into light, and chemical action
0029 - Page 13 - Chapter II : Transformation of physical forces
0035 - Page 19 - Chapter III : On animal heat
0043 - Page 27 - Chapter IV : Animal motion
Fig. 4. Character of the shock according to the degree of fatigue of the muscle
Fig. 5. Successive transformations of the shock of a muscle becoming gradually poisoned by veratrine
Fig. 6. Appearance presented by a wave in muscular fibre
Fig. 7. Disposition of a bundle of muscle between two pairs of myographical clips
Fig. 8. Two determinations of the speed of the muscular wave
Fig. 9. Transformation of heat into work by a strip of India-rubber
0057 - Page 41 - Chapter V. Contraction and work of the muscles
Fig. 10. Determination of the speed of the nervous agent in man
Fig. 11. Gradual coalescence of the shocks produced by electric excitations of increasing frequency
0065 - Page 49 - Chapter VI. Of electricity in animals
Fig. 12. Measure of the time which elapses between the excitation of the electric nerve, and the discharge of the torpedo
0075 - Page 59 - Chapter VII. Animal mechanism
0085 - Page 69 - Chapter VIII. Harmony between the organ and the function development hypothesis
Fig. 15. Skeleton of the wing and sternum of the sea-swallow
Fig. 17. Muscle of the thigh in the magot
Fig. 18. Muscles of the thigh of the Coaïta
0101 - Page 85 - Chapter IX. Variability of the skeleton
0110 - Page 94 - Variability of the muscular system
0118 - Page 102 - Book the second. Functions : terrestrial locomotion. Chapter I. Of locomotion in general
0126 - Page 110 - Chapter II. Terrestrial locomotion (bipeds). Act of walking in man
Fig. 19. Experimental shoe, intended to show the pressure of the foot on the ground, with its duration and its phases
Fig. 20. Tracings of the impact and the rise of the two feet iin our ordinary walk
Fig. 21. Transmission of an oscillatory movement to the registering apparatus
Fig. 22. The upper curves, one in full line, the other dotted, represent the phases of the impact and of the rise of the right and left foot
Fig. 23. Attempt to illustrate, by means of a metallic wire, the sinuous trajectory passed through by the pubis
Fig. 24. Showing two successive positions of the arm of the instrument, and the corresponding positions of the tracing points of the levers
Fig. 25. Tracing of the impact and rise of the right foot, furnished by a lever subjected at the same time to 10 vibrations per second
Fig. 26. A large tuning-fork whose vibrations are reduced by masses of lead to 10 per second
0140 - Page 124 - Chapter III. The different modes of progression used by man
Fig. 27. Runner provided with the apparatus intended to register his different paces
Fig. 28. Instrument to register the vertical re-actions during the various paces
Fig. 29. Tracing produced by walking upstairs / Fig. 30. Tracing produced by running
Fig. 31. Man galloping with the right foot first / Fig. 32. Leap on two feet at once
0148 - Page 132 - Notation of rhythm in different modes of progression
Fig. 33. Series of hops on the right foot
Fig. 34. The curve which corresponds with the act of running in man
Fig. 35. Synoptical notation of the four kinds of progression used by man
Fig. 36. Notations of the gallop / Fig. 37. Notation of a series of jumps on two feet
0154 - Page 138 - Chapter IV : Quadrupedal locomotion studied in the horse
Fig. 39. Notation of the horse's walking pace
Fig. 41. Synoptical notations of the paces of the horse, according to various writers
0163 - Page 147 - Apparatus intended for the study of the modes of locomotion of the horse
Fig. 42. Experimental apparatus to show the pressure of the horse's hoof on the ground
Fig. 43. Apparatus to give the signals of the pressure and rise of the horse's hoof
Fig. 44. This figure represents a trotting horse, furnished with the different experimental instruments
0167 - Page 151 - Chapter V. Experiments on the paces of the horse
Fig. 45. Graphie ouvres and notation of the horse's trot
Fig. 47. Piste of the trot according to Vincent and Goiffon / Fig. 48. Horse trotting with a low kind of pace
Fig. 50. Tracings and notation of the walking pace, with equal pressures of the feet / Fig. 51 : Notation of the walking pace with predominance of the lateral pressures
Fig. 52. Piste of the walking pace, after Vincent and Goiffon / Fig. 53. Piste of the amble, after Vincent and Goiffon
Fig. 54. Representation of the horse at a walking pace
0180 - Page 164 - Chapter VI. Experiments on the paces of the horse
Fig. 55. Tracings and notation of the gallop in three-time
Fig. 57. Piste of the short gallop in three-time / Fig. 58. Piste of Eclipse's gallop from Curnieu
Fig. 59. Horse gallopping in the first time, the hind left foot only on the ground
Fig. 60. Horse galloping in the second time / Fig. 61. Horse galloping in the third time
Fig. 62. Notation of the gallop in four time
Fig. 63. Notation of full gallop ; re-actions of this pace
Fig. 64. Transition from the walk to the trot / Fig. 65. Transition from the trot to the walk / Fig. 66. Transition from the trot to the gallop / Fig67. Transition from the gallop to the trot
Fig. 68. Notation rule, to represent the different paces
Fig. 69. Notation rule forming the representation of the gallop in three-time
0196 - Page 180 - Book the third. Aerial locomotion. Chapter I. Of the flight of insects
Fig. 70. Showing the frequency of the strokes of the wing a drone-fly
Fig. 71. Appearance of a wasp, the extremity of each of whose larger wings has been gilded
Fig. 72. Tracing of the middle region of the course of the wing of a bee, showing the crossing of the two branches of the 8
Fig. 73. Tracing of the middle zone in the course describes by the wing of a humming-bird moth / Fig. 74. This figure shows, in the tracing made by a wasp, the upper loop, and all the extent of one branch of the 8
Fig. 75. Tracings of the wing of a wasp ; several of the lower loops are distinctly seen / Fig. 76. Tracing of a Wheatstone's Kaleidophone rod, tuned to the octave
Fig. 77. Tracing obtained with the wing of a bee, oscillating in a plane which is sensibly tangential to the generatrix of the registering cylinders / Fig. 78. Tracings of a wasp
Fig. 79. Tracings of a Wheatstone rod tuned to the octave / Fig. 80. Tracings of the movements of the wing of a humming-bird moth rubbing on the cylinder by its lower edge
Fig. 81. Tracing of the wing of a fatigued macrogloss
Fig. 82. Determination of the direction of the movements of an insect's wing
0212 - Page 196 - Chapter II. Mechanism of the flight of insects
Fig. 84. Artificial representation of the movements of an insect's wing
Fig. 85. Representation of the changes in the plane of the insect's wing
Fig. 87. Representing the artificial insect
Fig. 88. Arrangement of the artificial insect, to obtain the change of plane, or ascending flight
0225 - Page 209 - Chapter III. Of the flight of birds
Fig. 89. Various curves of the wing of a bird at different points in its length
Fig. 90. Representing a contrivance intended to imitate the hovering of birds
Fig. 91. We have turned back the right hand corner of the two planes which form the angle
Fig. 92. The right hand corner of the plane of the angle has been bent downwards
0242 - Page 226 - Chapter IV. Of the movements of the wing of the bird during flight
Fig. 93. Apparatus to investigate the contraction of the thoracic muscles of the bird
Fig. 94. Experiment to determine by the electrical and myographical methods, at the same time, the frequency of the movements of the wing and the relative durations of its elevation and depression
Fig. 95. Myographical tracings of the pectoral muscles obtained frm different specles of birds during flight
Fig. 96. Showing the differences of amplitude and frequency of the strokes of a pigeon's wing
Fig. 97. Apparatus intended to transmit to a resgistering at a distance all the movements that are given to another lever
Fig. 98. Elastic point tracing on a smoked glass
Fig. 99. Buzzard flying with the apparatus which gives of the movements described by the extremity of its wing
Fig. 100. Elliptical tracing of the point of a bird's wing
Fig. 101. Ellipse formed by a Wheatstone's rod tuned in unisen, and tracing on a revolving cylinder
0260 - Page 244 - Chapter V. Of the changes in the plane of the bird's wing at different points in its course
Fig. 102. Transmission of a to-and-fro movement by means of a simple traction-cord
Fig. 103. General arrangement of the instrument
Fig. 104. Suspension of the bird in the instrument
Fig. 105. Tracing of the movements of a pigeon's wing
Fig. 106. Superposition of the preceding curves on paper divided in millimetres
Fig. 107. Constructed from the preceding curves
Fig. 108. Theoretical figure of the apparatus to inestigate the torsion of the wing
Fig. 109. Actual arrangement of the apparatus intended to experiment upon the movements of the wing
Fig. 110. Simultaneous tracing of the various movements of a buzzard's wing
Fig. 111. Inclinations of the plane of the wing with reference to the axis of the body during flight
0280 - Page 264 - Chapter VI. Re-actions of the movements of the wing on the body of the bird
Fig. 112. Apparatus intended to transmit to the registering instrument all the vertical oscillations of the bird
Fig. 113. Tracing of a chronographic tuning-fork making sixty vibrations in a second
Fig. 114. In the upper part we see, placed above aech other, the muscular tracing, and that of the vertical oscillations in a wild duck
Fig. 115. Simultaneous tracing of the two kinds of oscillations executed by a buzzard during flight
Fig. 116. Wing of an insect / Fig. 117. Active and passive parts of the bird's wing
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