Aristotle's De motu animalium

De Artificio Mechanico Musculorum: Teleological and Mechanical Reasoning in William Harvey’s De motu locali animalium

A history of technology. Volume VII: The twentieth century c. 1900 to c. 1950

MARTHA CRAVEN NUSSBAUM (editor), Aristotle's De motu animalium, Princeton University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 430, £18.90. The title ofDr. Nussbaum's excellent book disguises its riches. She presents us with a new text and English translation of this little tract, defends its authenticity, assigns it to a place among Aristotle's last works, and rescues it from undeserved neglect. This would...

Human Motion Analysis

The science of human motion analysis is fascinating because of its highly interdisciplinary nature and wide range of applications. Histories of science usually begin with the ancient Greeks, who first left a record of human inquiry concerning the nature of the world in relationship to our powers of perception. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) might be considered the first biomechanician. He wrote the b...

Philanthropy and police: London charity in the eighteenth century

on the passions and errors of the soul, published in 1525. Such criticisms, however, do not detract from the main value of this book as a clear exposition in English of interesting and, in their own day, influential theories of the emotions. First of all, we want to compliment Dr Paul Maquet from Belgium for this highly accomplished translation of a difficult text. "latrophysics" is a concept i...

De Motu Locali Animalium

The bright light of William Harvey's discovery of the nature of the blood's circulation usually outshines his other contributions, notably the important studies on the embryology of the chick and the deer. However, the Exercitationes de generatione animalium at least was published (1651). Now Dr. Whitteridge, at the invitation of the Royal College of Physicians, has made accessible a virtually ...