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Davar acher, though tangential, for those interested in early ideas of flight, the Rambam in Shmona Prakim discusses the unreliability of the imagination, saying it can conceive the impossible(sheker), such as a “steel ship flying in the air”. I was giving a Machshava shiur in this in a community near JFK in the Shabbos afternoon rush hour. I dont think any of those participants left with an idea of scientific infallibility of the Chachamim.