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BORELLI, GIOVANNI ALFONSO. De motu animalium . . . editio novissima. 19 engraved plates. [16], 236, [16]; [4], 314, [12]; 8 pages, including engraved additional allegorical title and engraved dedication to Hermann Boerhaave. 4to, contemporary vellum, covers slightly warped, turn-ins sprung; institutional stamps on letterpress general title verso. Leiden: apud Petrum Vander Aa, 1710
"Borelli originated the neurogenic theory of the heart's action and first suggested that the circulation resembled a simple hydraulic system. He was the first to insist that the heart beat was a simple muscular contraction"--Garrison-Morton 762 (1680-81 original edition). This Leiden edition reprints as an appendix the 1694 doctoral dissertation of Johann Bernoulli entitled Meditationes mathematicae de motu musculorum, a mathematical study of muscle contraction, influenced by Borelli. DSB II, 52.
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