Joan Sallas sal...@gmx.net wrote:
The model Wurfpfeil (dart to throw) was published in Hermann Wagner's
Book Illustrirtes Spielbuch f?r Knaben (Leipzig: Otto Spamer, 1864.
1st edition, page 283
Thank you. I take it this is the earliest publication that we know of ... in
Europe at least.
If so
Am 17.07.15 um 09:43 schrieb David Mitchell:
Playing Devil's advocate I wonder whether this assumption can be evidenced?
Both unfolded sheets and paper balls might also be candidates here?
Sure, as well as folded. The mentioned publication of 1721 speak about
rules for Papier und andern
Thus spake David Mitchell davidmitchell...@btinternet.com on 7/17/15
12:43 AM:
I'm interested because I recall a conversation with David Lister about
this
subject in which he told me he could find no evidence that paper planes
pre-dated similar constructions of wood and cloth ... though it would,
