De motu animalium; dissertationibus.
The Hague: 1743. Two works in one. 4to. [x], 228, [18]; [iv], 290 (mispaginated 270), [14]; 45 pp. (Bernoulli dissertation). LATER EDITION. Engraved frontispiece, title pages of the two parts of the Borelli work in red and black, and 19 folding plates; interior browned. Contemporary paste-paper boards, worn, speckled edges. Item #697
Borelli’s famous work applying mechanics to muscles (first published posthumously in 1680-81) together with Johann Bernoulli’s treatises applying mechanics to fermentation, along with his Dissertation de motu musculorum. This classic work established muscular mechanics as a science and was important in the history of cardiology and circulation. Bernoulli (1667-1748), of the famous Swiss family of mathematicians and physicists, was influenced by Borelli’s iatromathematical approach, as he demonstrated in his first paper on fermentation.
Dibner, Heralds of Science, 190 (1680-81 ed.); Wellcome, II, p. 204 (other eds.).
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