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“What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?”

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Abbas ibn Firnas (810-887) was an inventor from the Islamic world, known as a pioneer in aviation. He is considered one of the earliest figures to study the principles of flight and is recognized as a precursor to modern aircraft design. more

“First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man to steer them, and they shall sail far more swiftly than if they were full of men; also chariots that shall move with unspeakable force without any living creature to stir them. Likewise an instrument may be made to fly withall if one sits in the midst of the instrument, and do turn an engine, by which the wings, being artificially composed, may beat the air after the manner of a flying bird.”

“I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.”

Ifs Wells Made Air Aviation Devices Predictions Screws Linen

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.”

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Author:Giordano Bruno

“Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.”

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Author:Johannes Kepler

“As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the Moon and Jupiter. Who would have believed that a huge ocean could be crossed more peacefully and safely than the the narrow expanse of the Adriatic, the Baltic Sea or the English Channel? Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.”

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Author:Johannes Kepler

“Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world Of destined habitation.”

World Made Heaven Views Clear Sea Witness Aviation Gates Immense Predictions Destined

Author:John Milton

“The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.”

May Art Grows Perfect Future Moon Degrees Flying Aviation Predictions

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous dimensions and they would have to be moved at three feet per second. Only a fool would expect such a thing to be realized.”

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Author:Jerome Lalande

“At sea let the British their neighbours defy — The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.”

Sea Sky British Neighbor Aviation Predictions Traverse

Author:Philip Freneau

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