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Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies
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Fulgence Marion
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“If
it
be
here
inquired
what
means
there
may
be
conjectured
for
our
ascending
beyond
the
sphere
of
the
earth’s
mathematical
vigour,
I
answer.--1.
‘Tis
not
possible
that
a
man
may
be
able
to
fly
by
the
application
of
wings
to
his
own
body,
as
angels
are
pictured,
as
Mercury
and
Daedalus
are
feigned,
and
as
hath
been
attempted
by
divers,
particularly
by
a
Turk
in
Constantinople,
a
Busbequius
relates.
2.
If
there
be
such
a
great
duck
in
Madagascar
as
Marcus
Polus,
the
Venetian,
mentions,
the
feathers
of
whose
wings
are
twelve
feet
long,
which
can
scoop
up
a
horse
and
his
rider,
or
an
elephant,
as
our
kites
do
a
mouse;
why,
then,
‘Tis
but
teaching
one
of
these
to
carry
a
man,
and
he
may
ride
up
thither,
as
Ganymede
does
upon
an
eagle.
3.
Or
if
neither
of
these
ways
will
serve
yet
I
do
seriously,
and
upon
good
grounds,
affirm
it
is
possible
to
make
a
flying
chariot,
in
which
a
man
may
sit
and
give
such
a
motion
to
it
as
shall
convey
him
through
the
air.
And
this,
perhaps,
might
be
made
large
enough
to
carry
divers
men
at
the
same
time,
together
with
food
for
their
viaticum,
and
commodities
for
traffic.
It
is
not
the
bigness
of
anything
in
this
kind
that
can
hinder
its
motion
if
the
motive
faculty
be
answerable
“hereunto.
We
see
that;
great
ship
swims
as
well
as
a
small
cork,
and
an
eagle
flies
in
the
air
as
well
as
a
little
gnat.
This
engine
may
be
contrived
from
the
same
principles
by
which
Archytas
made
a
wooden
dove,
and
Regiomontanus
a
wooden
eagle.
I
conceive
it
were
no
difficult
matter
(if
a
man
had
leisure)
to
show
more
particularly
the
means
of
composing
it.
The
perfecting
of
such
an
invention
would
be
of
such
excellent
use
that
it
were
enough,
not
only
to
make
a
man
famous
but
the
age
wherein
he
lives.
For,
besides
the
strange
discoveries
that
it
might
occasion
in
this
other
world,
it
would
be
also
of
inconceivable
advantage
for
travelling,
above
any
other
conveyance
that
is
now
in
use.
So
that,
notwithstanding
all
these
seeming
impossibilities,
it
is
likely
enough
that
there
may
be
a
means
invented
of
journeying
to
the
moon;
and
how
happy
shall
they
be
that
are
first
successful
in
this
attempt!”
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