Abstract
ON Monday, M. Gaston Tissandier read a paper before the Paris Academy of Sciences on the recent fatal balloon ascent, in which he expressed his deliberate intention of renewing the attempt. The real cause of the catastrophe was the throwing out of ballast at an immense height; Tissandier attributes it to the “vertigo of high regions” The pain felt is so small that one forgets the danger in wishing to reach a higher level; so that he who is not able to restrain himself is not fitted to be an aëronaut in high regions.
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