 ... spring might perhaps be serviceable for the motion of this engine, yet it were better to have it assisted by the labour of some intelligent mover, as the heavenly orbs are supposed to be turned. And therefore if it were made big enough to carry sundry...  Aerial Navigation - Page 192by Charles Blachford Mansfield - 1877 - 513 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Wilkins - 1802 - 374 pages
...motion of this engine, yet it were better to have it assisted by the labourof Some intelligent mover, as the heavenly orbs are supposed to be turned. And...labour in the causing of this motion ; which thereby t;oukl be much more constant and lasting, than it could otherwise be, if it did wholly depend on the... | |
 | 1926 - 378 pages
...motion of this engine, yet it were better to have it assisted by the labour of some intelligent mover as the heavenly orbs are supposed to be turned. And therefore if it were big enough to carry sundry persons together, then each of them might labour in the causing of this... | |
 | Berthold Laufer - 1928 - 138 pages
...intelligent mover as the heavenly orbs are supposed to be turned. And therefore of them in their severall turns might successively labour in the causing of...which thereby would be much more constant and lasting, then it could otherwise be, if it did wholly depend on the strength of the same person. This contrivance... | |
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