The exterior of the horse . hor adds: It is ilear tliat the posi-tion of the centre of gravity and the distribution of the weight of the body uponthe members must vary very much according to the conformation of animalswhose head, neck, abdomen, and croup present such diverse proportions. The position of tlie centre of gravity of tlie liorse, as indicated by ]\I. Colin,seems to us very nearly cf)rrect, at least judging from the exjieriments which wehave conducted. At first, it seems cxtreiiuly probable that this j)oint is situated in the medianplane of the body. In effecting a series of weighin
The exterior of the horse . hor adds: It is ilear tliat the posi-tion of the centre of gravity and the distribution of the weight of the body uponthe members must vary very much according to the conformation of animalswhose head, neck, abdomen, and croup present such diverse proportions. The position of tlie centre of gravity of tlie liorse, as indicated by ]\I. Colin,seems to us very nearly cf)rrect, at least judging from the exjieriments which wehave conducted. At first, it seems cxtreiiuly probable that this j)oint is situated in the medianplane of the body. In effecting a series of weighings bearing alternately uponboth of the lateral bipeds of the same subject maintained as nuich as jwssible inan invariable attitude, we succeed in determining that the left lateral biped, forexample, supi)orts a weight very nearly ecjual to that of the right lateral the other hand, if, from the example of MM. Raai)e and Boniial, we considerthat the dorso-lumbar column AB, Fig 2, measuring the interval comj)rised be-. tween the centre of the movement of the shoulder and that ol the haunch,—thatis to say, the length of the base of support of a well-formed horse,—is attractedby two parallel forces F and F, distributing the weight of the body upon theposterior and anterior bipeds, it will be easy to determine with considerableapproximation the position of the point P, through which passes the line ofgravitation,—that is to say, the resultant of these two forces. It is known thatthis point divides the line AB into two parts inversely proportional to the forces/and /, in such a way that we have PBPA » Raabe et Bonnal, Détermination des lignes de Knivitô du cheval, ttcnaires, 1883, p. 538. In Archives véti-ri- 6 THE EXTERIOR OF THE HORSE. Here are, in fact, the results wliich we have obtained by the aid of Uiis procedure upon asaddle-horse of a fine form provided with good equilibrium, that measured m. at the withersand at the croup, and m. from the point o
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