V. Observations on animal electricity, and particularly that called spontaneous

Additional Observations on Animal Electricity

Animal Electricity

This is a series of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution last year, and now published with numerous illustrations. Although of an elementary and almost popular kind, the matter contains much that is conjectural and controversial. The diagrams of the various apparatus are numerous and clear, and the graphic illustrations showing the effect of chloroform, ether and carbonic acid on the ner...

What’s that Thing Called Embodiment?

Embodiment has become an important concept in many areas of cognitive science. There are, however, very different notions of exactly what embodiment is and what kind of body is required for what type of embodied cognition. Hence, while many nowadays would agree that humans are embodied cognizers, there is much less agreement on what kind of artifact could be considered embodied. This paper iden...

That Strange Procedure Called Quantisation

This is a pedagogical and (almost) self-contained introduction into the Theorem of Groenewold and van Howe, which states that a naive transcription of Dirac’s quantisation rules cannot work. Some related issues in quantisation theory are also discussed. First-class constrained systems a briefly described in a slightly more ‘global’ fashion.1

Observations and Queries on Animal Heat

light are not infeparable; and a diftindtion was formed between heat and fire, at a very early period, by Theophraftus in his book de Igne'K The caufes which operate in the generation pf animal heat, and in the prefervation of that nearly equal temperature which the healthy body of a living animal maintains, have long been problems which the moft ingenious philofophers and phyfiologifts have en...