Abstract
M. TISSANDIER has just published a handsome and well-illustrated volume, giving a history of his twenty-four ascents with an account of their scientific results, which are of very considerable importance. M. Tissandier is one of the most scientific of modern aeronauts, and has, by his ascents, made important additions to our knowledge of atmospheric phenomena. The work to which we refer ought to interest many readers; it is not only full of adventures, of “hairbreadth 'scapes,” of humorous incidents, and beautiful descriptions of atmospheric scenes, which ought to prove attractive to the general reader, but contains, besides, a large amount of data of greaf importance in connection with the physics of the air.
Histoire de mes Ascensions. Recit de Vingt-quatre Voyages aériens (1868–1878) précédé de simples Notions sur les Ballons et la Navigation aérienne.
Par Gaston Tissandier. Illustré de nombreux dessins par Albert Tissandier. (Paris: Dreyfous, 1878.)
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Histoire de mes Ascensions Recit de Vingt-quatre Voyages aériens (1868-1878) précédé de simples Notions sur les Ballons et la Navigation aérienne . Nature 18, 639–640 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018639a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/018639a0
