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On the Movement of Animals

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    Chapter 1 To the august Queen Christina
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    Chapter 2 Carlo Giovanni from the regular clerics of Jesus, general superior of the arm and pious scholars of the Mother of God
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    Chapter 3 Introduction
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    Chapter 4 Enumeration of what must be assumed in dealing with movement of the animals
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    Chapter 5 Description and function of the muscle
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    Chapter 6 Magnitude of the vital motive power of the muscles according to the ancients
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    Chapter 7 Theorems useful to show the hugeness of the motive power of the muscles
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    Chapter 8 Although contracted with a maximum effort by a determined magnitude of motive power, a muscle sometimes may exert very little or no force
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    Chapter 9 Mechanical lemmas useful to explain the power or the moment of the muscles
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    Chapter 10 The tendons of the muscles must not be attached to the extremities of the articulated bones but well on tuberosities in the vicinity of the joint with their direction oblique to the longitudinal axis of the bone
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    Chapter 11 On the motive power and on the moments of the flexor muscles of the elbow
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    Chapter 12 On the flexor muscles of the lower leg and their action about the knee. Tab. III, Fig. 4.
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    Chapter 13 On the double increase of the forces of the muscles flexing the forearm and the lower leg
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    Chapter 14 On the moment and apparent magnitude of the motive power exerted by the extensor muscles of the lower leg
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    Chapter 15 On the greater increase of the force which, to carry the same load with the same bones, is required from the muscles which are involved in the operation
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    Chapter 16 Lemmas necessary to analyse the motive power of the muscles the fibres of which are not parallel and pull obliquely
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    Chapter 17 On the muscles pulling obliquely, their varying structure and their action
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    Chapter 18 Analysis of the forces exerted by the radial muscles described so far
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    Chapter 19 Lemmas of mechanics necessary for a more accurate analysis of the motive force exerted by the muscles
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    Chapter 20 More accurate analysis of the motive power of the muscles described above
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    Chapter 21 On the stance of the animals
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    Chapter 22 On the walking of bipeds
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    Chapter 23 On the walking of quadrupeds
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    Chapter 24 On jumping
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    Chapter 25 On flying
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    Chapter 26 On swimming
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    Chapter 27 Carlo Giovanni of the regular clerics of Jesus, general superior of the pious school of the Mother of God
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    Chapter 28 On the mechanism of muscle contraction
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    Chapter 29 On the untrue causes of contraction of muscles given by others
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    Chapter 30 On the likely causes of contraction of the muscles
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    Chapter 31 On internal movements in animals and first on blood circulation
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    Chapter 32 On the heart and its pulsation
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    Chapter 33 On the causes of the movement of the heart
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    Chapter 34 On breathing
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    Chapter 35 On the primary function of respiration
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    Chapter 36 On cleaning of the blood in the kidneys
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    Chapter 37 On the function of the liver
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    Chapter 38 On the flowing of spirituous substance through the nerves
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    Chapter 39 On semen, its genesis, movement and nature
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    Chapter 40 On the generation and development of plants
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    Chapter 41 On animal generation
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    Chapter 42 On insensible perspiration
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    Chapter 43 On nutrition of the animals
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    Chapter 44 On hunger and thirst
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    Chapter 45 On pain
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    Chapter 46 On fatigue
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    Chapter 47 On convulsions
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    Chapter 48 On shivering
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    Chapter 49 On fevers
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Title
On the Movement of Animals
Published by
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-73812-8
ISBNs
978-3-64-273814-2, 978-3-64-273812-8
Authors

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso

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Country Count As %
Unknown 23 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 30%
Researcher 2 9%
Student > Master 2 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Unknown 11 48%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 6 26%
Neuroscience 2 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Social Sciences 1 4%
Computer Science 1 4%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 10 43%