Galien

Instead the time order goes from Sol through Galien and so on to Eastman-to the very edge of unexplored territory along that arc-then, jumping back to the other side of Sol, goes straight on to the edge of Civilization in the opposite direction.

Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

From the labours of Lana and Galien, with their impossible flying machines, the inventor of the balloon could derive no benefit whatever; nor is his fame to be in the least diminished because many had laboured in the same field before him.

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After the flying-machine of Lana there was constructed by Galien (who, like the former, was an ecclesiastic) an air-boat, less chimerical in its form, looked at in view of the conditions of aerial navigation, but much more singular.

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Galien adds that in the region of hail there was in the air a separation into two layers, the weights of which respectively are as 1 to 2.

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The proconsul of Asia being absent in order to wait on the emperors, probably Valerian and Galien, the governor of Lycia, residing at Patara, to show his zeal for the idols, published an order on the festival of Serapis, to oblige all to offer sacrifice to that false god.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Galien describes his air-boat, in 1755, in his little work entitled, "The Art of Sailing in the Air."

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Galien, a French monk, published a book L'art de naviguer dans l'air in 1757, in which it was conjectured that the air at high levels was lighter than that immediately over the surface of the earth.

A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

Galien proposed to bring down the upper layers of air and with them fill a vessel, which by Archimidean principle would rise through the heavier atmosphere.

A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

How this high air was to be obtained is matter for conjecture -- Galien seems to have thought in a vicious circle, in which the vessel that must rise to obtain the light air must first be filled with it in order to rise.

A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914

If one went high enough, said Galien, the air would be two thousand times as light as water, and it would be possible to construct an airship, with this light air as lifting factor, which should be as large as the town of Avignon, and carry four million passengers with their baggage.

A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914