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James Bell Pettigrew FRSE FRS FRCPE LLD (26 May 1834 – 30 January 1908) was a Scottish anatomist and noted naturalist, aviation pioneer and museum curator. He was a distinguished naturalist in Britain, and Professor of Anatomy at St Andrews University from 1875 until his death. Pettigrew was an internationally acknowledged authority on animal locomotion and bird flight, which informed his invention of an early flying machine. The Wright Brothers studied his most popular work, Animal Locomotion: or Walking, Swimming and Flying which was published in 1873.

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  • James Bell Pettigrew FRSE FRS FRCPE LLD (26 May 1834 – 30 January 1908) was a Scottish anatomist and noted naturalist, aviation pioneer and museum curator. He was a distinguished naturalist in Britain, and Professor of Anatomy at St Andrews University from 1875 until his death. Pettigrew was an internationally acknowledged authority on animal locomotion and bird flight, which informed his invention of an early flying machine. The Wright Brothers studied his most popular work, Animal Locomotion: or Walking, Swimming and Flying which was published in 1873. (en)
  • James Bell Pettigrew, född 26 maj 1834 i Roxhill, Calderbank, North Lanarkshire, död 30 januari 1908 i Saint Andrews, var en skotsk fysiolog. Pettigrew var från 1875 till sin död professor vid Saint Andrews universitet. Han verkade med framgång som uppsyningsman vid medicinska museer och som föreläsare samt studerade hjärtats, munnens, urinblåsans och livmoderns nerv- och muskelsystem. I avhandlingen On the Physiology of Wings (i Royal Societys i Edinburgh "Transactions" 1870) lämnade han bidrag till kännedomen om insekternas, fladdermössens och fåglarnas flykt. År 1873 utgav han Animal Locomotion, or Walking, Swimming and Flying; with a Dissertation on Aëronautics, vilket arbete prisbelönades av franska vetenskapsakademien och översattes till flera språk, samt 1874 föreläsningsserien On t (sv)
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