A Disclosure of the Discovery and Invention and a Description of the Plan of Construction and Mode of Operation of the Aerostat, or a New Mode of Aero, Davidson Richard Oglesby

In the year 1672, Bishop Wilkins published a treatise, eu titled, The discovery of the New World, in which he men tions the true principles on which ballooning rests; quoting, from Albertus de Saxonia and Francis Mendoza, that the air is in some part ofit navigable, upon this static principle; that any brass or iron vessel whose substance is much heavier than that of water, yet being filled with lighter air it Will Swim upon it and not sink. But this project, like that of Bacons, proved unsuccessful.

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