How the Heart Became Muscle: From René Descartes to Nicholas Steno
This dissertation addresses the heartbeat and the systems of natural philosophy that were used to explain it in the 17th century. Thus, I work in two domains of explanation. The first domain is physiology, in which William Harvey correctly ordered the heart’s systolic and diastolic motions, while Re...
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Scholar Commons
2019
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| Online Access: | https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7939 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9136&context=etd |