Recent advances in many fields have made the design of micro-aerial vehicles that implement flapping wings a possibility. However, there are many outstanding problems that must be solved before flapping flight can be implemented as a practical means of propulsion. This dissertat…
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This dissertation explores the staging of the invisible sciences in three plays by Elizabeth Inchbald: The Mogul Tale (1784), The Wise Man of the East (1799), and Animal Magnetism (1788). These plays incorporate the invisible sciences of flight, spiritualism, and mesmerism (resp…
Understanding how animals move in response to their environment is a fundamental question in ecology. Soaring species, which rely on environmentally generated uplift to forage and migrate, should be especially sensitive to changing weather and climatic conditions. Changes in upl…
The entire diversity of life on earth exists in air or water. Whether an organism lives in air or water provides the most fundamental description of its physical world and establishes an organism’s ecological niche on the most essential level. Because these two fluids are vastly…
Between the years 1922 and 1935, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) photographed over 300 images of clouds from his family’s property at Lake George in upstate New York. About an hour’s drive north of Albany, Lake George experienced highly changeable weather syst…