中文名: 奇妙的熱氣球旅行
原名: Wonderful Balloon Ascents; or, The Conquest of the Skies
作者: (法)F. Marion
資源格式: PDF
版本: 文字版
出版社: Dodo Press
書號: 978-1409963189
發行時間: 2009年06月05日
地區: 美國
語言: 英文
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內容簡介:
對天文學家或者那些了解到對來自地球的旅行者來說天空是一個無限空間的人來說，本書關於航空學介紹的標題是顯得過於野心勃勃了，但是對於那些目睹第一個熱氣球升空所激起的高漲熱情的人來說，不會拘泥於這個問題。縱觀歷史，沒有任何一次探索引起過與之相當的歡呼和贊美。數學和物理學在航空學中顯然獲得了巨大的榮耀，知識的進展也迎來了嶄新的時代...
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PREFACE
PART I. THE CONQUEST OF THE SKIES.--1783.
CHAPTER I. Introduction.
CHAPTER II. Attempts in Ancient Times to Fly in the Air.
CHAPTER III. The Theory of Balloons.
CHAPTER IV. First Public Trial of the Balloon.
CHAPTER V. Second Experiment.
CHAPTER VI. Third Experiment.
CHAPTER VII. Fourth Experiment.
CHAPTER VIII. Men and Balloons.
CHAPTER IX. The First Aerial Voyage--Roziers and Arlandes.
CHAPTER X. The Second Arial Voyage.
PART II. The History of Aerostation from the Year 1783.
CHAPTER I. The Open Route--Travels and Travellers--Great Increase in the Number of Air Voyages--Lyons, Ascent of "Le Flesselles--Milan, Ascent of Adriani--Flight of a Balloon from London--Lost Balloons in the Chief Towns of Europe
CHAPTER II. Experiments and Studies--Blanchard at Paris--Guyton de Morveau at Dijon.
CHAPTER III. Experiment in Montgolfiers--Roziers and Proust--The Duke of Chartres--The Comte d'Artois--Voyage of the Abbe Carnus to Rodez.
CHAPTER IV. Serio-Comic Aspect of the Subject--The Public Duped--The Abbes Miolan and Janninet at the Luxembourg--Cariacatures--The "Minerva" of Robertson, and its Voyage Round the World.
CHAPTER V. First Aerial Voyage in England--Blanchard Crosses the Sea in a Balloon.
CHAPTER VI. Zambeccari's Perilous Trip Across the Adriatic Sea.
CHAPTER VII. Garnerin--Parachutes--Aerostation at Public Fetes.
CHAPTER VIII. Green's Great Journey Across Europe.
CHAPTER IX. The "Geant" Balloon.
CHAPTER X. The Necrology of Aeronautic
PART III. Scientific Experiments--Applications of Ballooning.
CHAPTER I. Experiments of Robertson, Lhoest, Saccarof, &c.
CHAPTER II. Ascent of M. Gay-Lussac Alone--Excursions of MM. Barral and Bixio.
CHAPTER III. Ascents of the Mssrs. Welsh, Glaisher and Coxwell.
CHAPTER IV. Balloons Made Useful in Warfare.