leucacians

Updated: May 7, 2025

"It is reported," Francis Bacon writes, "that the Leucacians in ancient time did use to precipitate a man from a high cliffe into the sea; tying about him, with strings, at some distance, many great fowles; and fixing unto his body divers feathers, spread, to breake the fall.

John Mackenzie Bacon - The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation