An account of the Sieur Bernier's way of Flying. Containing the extract of a letter written from Monsieur Toynard, concerning a machin newly invented for flying in the air, by the Sieur Besnier

Having lately seen an account from France of a person there, who with some considerable success has attempted to raise and sustain himself, and so to move and fly in the air by the help of mechanical or artificial wings, agitated only by his own strength, without the assistance of any other either animate or inanimate power;