Steno on muscles : introduction, texts, translations /
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : The American Philosophical Society, 1994. |
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| Description: | xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English Latin |
| Series: | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 0065-9746 ; [new ser.], v. 84, part 1 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society v. 84, pt. 1. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1612270 |
| Summary: | A main work on muscular action, the "Elements of Myology," by the Danish anatomist Niels Stensen (1638-1686) was written at a time when the teachings of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Aristotle, & Galen were still the foundations upon which scholarly learning on the human body were built. In this work as in several other areas of research, Stensen described a structure vs. time relation as a dynamic process. From macroscopic observations of a number of muscles in several animal species, he described the contraction of compound muscles arranged in unipennate structures with an angle between muscle fibers & tendons. He found that the observed swelling of a muscle during contraction was not an argument for an expansion of its volume. Contents of this study: (1) Stensen's Myology in HIsotrical Perspective, by Troels Kardel, M.D.; & (2) Translations of Niels Stensen's "New Structure of the Muscles & Heart" (1663) & "Specimen of Elements of Myology" (1667) with Facsimile of First Editions" annotated by Harriet Hansen, M.A., & Aug. Ziggelaar, S.J., Ph.D. Reprint. Illus. |
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| Item Description: | Cover title. Latin texts and English translations on opposite pages. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0871698412 |
| ISSN: | 0065-9746 ; |
