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Steno on Muscles: Introduction, Texts and Translation, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 84, Part 1)

Steno on Muscles: Introduction, Texts and Translation, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 84, Part 1)

Kardel, Troels

Hardcover

Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Book 610

Medical ReferenceAnatomy & Physiology

ISBN10: 0871698412
ISBN13: 9780871698414
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 1995
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.63 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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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