[564] “Instrumenta naviganda possunt fieri sine hominibus remigantibus, ut naves maximæ, fluviales et marinæ, ferantur unico homine regente, majori velocitate quam si plenæ essent hominibus.... Item possunt fieri instrumenta volandi.”—De Secretis, c. iv.
[565] “Inventions and Devices,” No. 42, fol. 31-2.
[566] Cæsar, De Bell. Gall., v. 43. See also p. 90 here.
[567] Tacitus, “Hist.,” ii. 21.
[568] See p. 202.
[569] See p. 4.
[570] “Das es dir den hals nit abstoss.” Romocki, i. 189.
[571] Romocki, i. 192 n.
[572] Napoleon III., iii. 156. Whitehorne describes a similar fireball, in which tow is used instead of cloth.
[573] Jähns, 810.