Concord Field Station, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Old Causeway Road, Bedford, MA 01730, USA.
Curr Biol. 2022 Oct 24;32(20):R1110-R1114. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.079.
Throughout recorded human history, birds have fascinated and inspired humans to dream of flying. The Greek myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and fell to his death, first written by Diodorus (60-30 B.C.E.) and later poetically revised by Ovid (8 C.E.), evokes the dangers of hubris. Many indigenous peoples invoke spiritual qualities and protection ascribed to birds that were symbols of freedom and viewed as sacred messengers of the gods. As a student of bird flight, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was the first to document dynamic soaring by birds. And, subsequently, the flight of birds inspired human engineered pursuit of powered aircraft design, with the Wright Brothers being the first to design and achieve sustained flight at Kitty Hawk, NC, USA in 1903.
纵观人类有记载的历史，鸟类一直令人类着迷，并激发人类梦想飞翔。希腊神话中代达罗斯和他的儿子伊卡洛斯的故事，首次由狄奥多罗斯（公元前 60-30 年）撰写，后来奥维德（公元 8 年）以诗歌形式进行了修订，讲述了人类的傲慢自负带来的危险。许多土著民族将鸟类视为自由的象征，并将其视为神灵的神圣使者，赋予它们精神特质和保护。作为鸟类飞行的学生，莱昂纳多·达·芬奇（Leonardo da Vinci，1452-1519 年）是第一个记录鸟类动态翱翔的人。此后，鸟类的飞行激发了人类对动力飞机设计的工程追求，莱特兄弟（Wright Brothers）是第一个在美国北卡罗来纳州的基蒂霍克（Kitty Hawk）设计并实现持续飞行的人，时间是 1903 年。
