On the Movement of Animals

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
To the august Queen Christina....Pages 1-2
Carlo Giovanni from the regular clerics of Jesus, general superior of the arm and pious scholars of the Mother of God....Pages 3-5
Introduction....Pages 6-7
Enumeration of what must be assumed in dealing with movement of the animals....Pages 7-8
Description and function of the muscle....Pages 8-14
Magnitude of the vital motive power of the muscles according to the ancients....Pages 15-16
Theorems useful to show the hugeness of the motive power of the muscles....Pages 16-18
Although contracted with a maximum effort by a determined magnitude of motive power, a muscle sometimes may exert very little or no force....Pages 19-20
Mechanical lemmas useful to explain the power or the moment of the muscles....Pages 20-23
The tendons of the muscles must not be attached to the extremities of the articulated bones but well on tuberosities in the vicinity of the joint with their direction oblique to the longitudinal axis of the bone....Pages 24-27
On the motive power and on the moments of the flexor muscles of the elbow....Pages 28-33
On the flexor muscles of the lower leg and their action about the knee. Tab. III, Fig. 4.....Pages 33-36
On the double increase of the forces of the muscles flexing the forearm and the lower leg....Pages 36-42
On the moment and apparent magnitude of the motive power exerted by the extensor muscles of the lower leg....Pages 42-47
On the greater increase of the force which, to carry the same load with the same bones, is required from the muscles which are involved in the operation....Pages 48-71
Lemmas necessary to analyse the motive power of the muscles the fibres of which are not parallel and pull obliquely....Pages 72-89
On the muscles pulling obliquely, their varying structure and their action....Pages 89-96
Analysis of the forces exerted by the radial muscles described so far....Pages 96-104
Lemmas of mechanics necessary for a more accurate analysis of the motive force exerted by the muscles....Pages 104-118
More accurate analysis of the motive power of the muscles described above....Pages 118-126
On the stance of the animals....Pages 126-144
On the walking of bipeds....Pages 144-150
On the walking of quadrupeds....Pages 151-155
On jumping....Pages 155-162
On flying....Pages 162-183
On swimming....Pages 183-202
Carlo Giovanni of the regular clerics of Jesus, general superior of the pious school of the Mother of God....Pages 203-204
On the mechanism of muscle contraction....Pages 205-220
On the untrue causes of contraction of muscles given by others....Pages 220-231
On the likely causes of contraction of the muscles....Pages 232-242
On internal movements in animals and first on blood circulation....Pages 242-248
On the heart and its pulsation....Pages 248-281
On the causes of the movement of the heart....Pages 281-286
On breathing....Pages 287-300
On the primary function of respiration....Pages 300-339
On cleaning of the blood in the kidneys....Pages 340-354
On the function of the liver....Pages 354-364
On the flowing of spirituous substance through the nerves....Pages 364-375
On semen, its genesis, movement and nature....Pages 375-383
On the generation and development of plants....Pages 383-393
On animal generation....Pages 393-399
On insensible perspiration....Pages 400-401
On nutrition of the animals....Pages 401-410
On hunger and thirst....Pages 410-412
On pain....Pages 413-415
On fatigue....Pages 415-419
On convulsions....Pages 420-421
On shivering....Pages 421-425
On fevers....Pages 425-452
Back Matter....Pages 453-492