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BOOMERANGS may be studied for their anthropological interest as examples of primitive art,2 or for the manner in which they illustrate dynamical principles.3 But there is extraordinary fascination in making and throwing them, and in watching the remarkable and always graceful curves described in their flight; accordingly, my chief object in the following paper has been to diminish the practical difficulties of the subject by giving some of the results of ten years' experimental acquaintance with it.
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E. O. Erdmann, Ann. d. Phys. u. Chemie., vol. cxxxvii. p. 1 (1869); E. Gerlach, Zeitschr. d. D. Vereins z. Förd. d. Luftschifffahrt, Heft 3 (1886); G. T. Walker, London Phil. Trans., vol. cxc. p. 23 (1897).
Mr. A. W. Howitt, NATURE, July 20, 1876.
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WALKER, G. Boomerangs 1 . Nature 64, 338–340 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064338a0
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