Radical-mechanics of animal locomotion. With remarks on the setting-up of soldiers, horse and foot, and the supplying of cavalry horses

by William Pratt Wainwright

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New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1880. 8vo, pp. xviii, 1 , 14-294, 2 , viii; original purple cloth, gilt title on spine; spine sunned, text clean and tight. Inscribed by the author to Hon William Campbell of Cherry Valley, the New York historian and politician. A book dealing particularly with human locomotion and posture, deriving principles from the movement of snakes. Wainwright makes a case for ambidexterity and calls the excessive use of one hand the

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