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

by Troels Kardel and Paul G.J. Maquet

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871698412
• ISBN13: 9780871698414
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 252 Pages