Wonderful ballon ascents : or, The conquest of the skies A history of balloons and balloon voyages . bitious legend,Sic itur ad astra, the following epigram was producedrespecting him :— From the Field of Mars he took his flight : In a field close by he tumbled ;But our money having taken,He smiled, though sadly shaken, As Sic itur ad astra he mumbled. What is most important to examine in each of the greataerial voyages that have been made, is the special characterwhich distinguishes them from average experiments. Allour great voyages are rendered special and particular by theideas of the men
Wonderful ballon ascents : or, The conquest of the skies A history of balloons and balloon voyages . bitious legend,Sic itur ad astra, the following epigram was producedrespecting him :— From the Field of Mars he took his flight : In a field close by he tumbled ;But our money having taken,He smiled, though sadly shaken, As Sic itur ad astra he mumbled. What is most important to examine in each of the greataerial voyages that have been made, is the special characterwhich distinguishes them from average experiments. Allour great voyages are rendered special and particular by theideas of the men who undertook them, and the aims whichthey severally meant to achieve by them. The early ascentsof Montgolfier had for their aim the establishment of thefact that any body lighter than the volume of air which itdisplaces will rise in the atmosphere ; those of Ro/.iers wereundertaken to prove that man can apply this principle forthe purpose of making actual aerial voyages ; those ofRobertson, , &c, were undertaken for the pur-pose of ascertaining certain meteorological phenomena;.
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