10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BIMANOUS»
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Man contemplated physically, morally, intellectually and ...
Now, as between the quadrupedal and bimanous type of sentient existence, the
quadrumana are, beyond question, the connecting link, and as such transitional,
and so mortal. The ape, like the dodo, will soon become a thing of the past, while
...
John William Jackson, 1871
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The human foot and the human hand
... limbs only, is "bima- nous" or "two-handed." By this peculiarity, perhaps more
definitely than by any other, he is distinguished in structure from all the rest of the
animal series; and naturalists have, accordingly, given the epithet "Bimanous" ...
Sir George Murray Humphry, 1861
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The art of discourse: a system of rhetoric
Logical definition, as sometimes so called, is effected by naming the next higher
species and the specific difference, as, man is logically defined to be animal that
is rational — rational animal ; or mammal that is bimanous — bimanous mammal
...
4
The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
... but there is nothing in the form of the pelvis of the Australian or Negro which
tends to diminish the wide hiatus that separates the bimanous from the
quadrumanous type of structure in regard to this part of the skeleton. Observation
has not yet ...
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1837
5
Anthropological treatises of Blumenbach and Hunter
Man a bimanous animal. From what has been so far said about the erect stature
of man follows that highest prerogative of his external conformation, namely, the
freest use of two most perfect hands. By this conformation he so much excels the
...
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Thomas Bendyshe, Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx, 1865
6
New Physiognomy: Or, Signs of Character, as Manifested ...
Man, having the movable thumb on each of the two upper limbs only, is
bimanous or two-handed ; and this peculiarity gives a name to the class in which
naturalists have placed him alone — the bimanous. The hand is the executive
and ...
Samuel Roberts Wells, 1871
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Elements of General Anatomy; Tr. from the Last Ed. of the ...
He is the only animal truly bimanous and a biped. His whole body is organized
with reference to the vertical posture; and his hands are evidently reserved for
other purposes than standing. The heart has an oblique direction with regard to
the ...
Pierre Auguste Béclard, M. Ollivier (Charles Prosper), 1830
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The Art of Discourse: a System of Rhetoric Adapted for Use ...
Logical definition, as sometimes so called, is effected by naming the next higher
species and the specific difference, as, man is logically defined to be animal that
is rational—rational animal ; or mammal that is bimanous— bimanous mammal.
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Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History,: Containing a ...
... as one with two seet, we might then fay, that man was only biped and
bimanous, because he alone has two hands and two seet; that the manati is only
bimanous ; the bat is only a biped ; and the ape a quadrimanus, or four-handed
animal.
Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, 1792
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The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, ...
Mitphatamet. Wycombe, Jan. 16. 1830. Errata. — In p. 244. line 30. for " fig. 57."
read " fig. 58." In p. 247. line 25. for " Papilio cratasgata" read " Papilio crata^gi."
In p. 372. line 19. after " Quadrumanous " insert the words " and Bimanous." Art.
IX.
J. C. Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, 1830
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The 'canonicity' of Kafka.
Out we stared, upright, bipedal, bimanous, with our opposing thumbs, alert to all threats and possibilities. Kafka, in his photographs, looks like ... «The Fortnightly Review, Jun 15»
