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The Paces of the Horse

Nature volume 21, pages 55–56 (1879)Cite this article

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A GOOD many ingenious contrivances have lately been invented by which to find out the true movements of the feet of the horse in its various paces, notably that described in “A Study on Locomotion” which appeared in NATURE, vol. xx. pp. 434, 468, 488.

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SIMPSON, W. The Paces of the Horse. Nature 21, 55–56 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021055f0

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