Nicolaus Steno on solutes and solvents in time-related structural changes of muscles, fossils, landscapes and crystals, his galilean heritage
In Part One of the Specimen of Elements of Myology, a book in three parts published in Florence 1667, Nicolaus Steno described the changes taking place between muscle relaxation and contraction in a two-stage geometrical model based on anatomical observations in man and animals. The ‘new myology’ w...
Main Author: | Troels Kardel |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2021-06-01
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Series: | Substantia |
Online Access: | https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/1277 |
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