Function and structure in early modern muscular mechanics. Four episodes and a dialogue between Stensen and Borelli on two chief muscular systems

Acta Anatomica

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-70

  Kordel, T ^a  

^a NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Early modern biology; History of medicine; Muscle contraction; Muscle models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER MODEL; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANATOMY; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; HEART; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0031406325     PISSN: 00015180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Alexander, R.McN. (1968) Animal Mechanics. London, Sidwick & Jackson.
2. An, K-N., F.C. Hui, B.F. Morrey, R.L. Linscheid, E.Y. Chao (1981) Muscles across the elbow joint: A biomechanical analysis. J Biomech 14: 659-669.
3. Bernoulli, J. (1997) Dissertations: On the Mechanics of Effervescence and Fermentation, and on the Mechanics of the Movement of Muscles; edited and translated by P. Maquet. Trans Am Phil Soc 87:Pt3.
4. Boas, M. (1952) The establishment of the mechanical philosophy. Osiris 10: 412-541.
5. Borelli, G.A. (1680/1989) On the Movement of Animals (transi. P. Maquet). Heidelberg/Berlin, Springer.
6. Brand, P.W., R.B. Beach, D.E. Thompson (1981) Relative tension and potential excursion of muscles in the forearm and hand. J Hand Surg 6: 209-219.
7. Cantor, G.N., M.J.S. Hodge (eds) (1981) Conceptions of Ether. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
8. Descartes, R. (1644) Principia philosophiæ. Amsterdam, Elzevier.
9. Descartes, R. (1662/1972) Treatise of Man; edited and translated by T.S. Hall. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
10. Fulton, J.F., L.G. Wilson (1966) Selected Readings in the History of Physiology, ed 2. Springfield, Thomas.
11. Gans, C., W.J. Bock (1965) The functional significance of muscle architecture: A theoretical analysis. Ergebn Anat EntwGesch 38: 115-142.
12. Gorham, G. (1994) Mind-body dualism and the Harvey-Descartes controversy. J Hist Ideas 55; 211-234.
13. von Haller, A. (1786/1966) First lines of physiology. The Sources of Science, vol 32. New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation.
14. Hamesse, J. (1974) Les auctoritates Aristotelis. Philosophes Médiévaux XVII, Louvain/Paris, p 155.
15. Horblit, H.D. (1964) One Hundred Books Famous in Science. New York, Grolier Club.
16. Huijing, P.A. (1985) Architecture of the human gastrocnemius muscle and some functional consequences. Acta Anat 123: 101-107.
17. Huijing, P.A. (1991) Mechanical muscle models; in Komi, P.V. (ed): Strength and Power in Sports. Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine. London, Blackwell, vol 16, p139.
18. Huijing, P.A. (1996) Book review. J Biomech 29: 575.
19. Huijing, P.A. (1997) Muscle, the motor of movement: Properties in function, experiment and modelling. J EMG Kinesiol., in press.
20. Iliffe, R. (1995) 'That puzleihg problem': Isaac Newton and the political physiology of self. Med Hist 39: 433-458.
21. Kardel, T. (1986) 'A specimen of observations upon the muscles': Taken from that noble anatomist Nicholas Steno; in Poulsen, J., E. Snorrason (eds): Nicolaus Steno 1638-1686: A Re-Consideration by Danish Scientists. Gentofte, Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium, pp 97-134.
22. Kardel, T. (1990) Niels Stensen's geometrical theory of muscle contraction (1667): A reappraisal. J. Biomech 23: 953-965.
23. Kardel, T. (1994a) Stensen's myology in historical perspective; in Kardel, T. (ed): Steno on Muscles. Trans Am Phil Soc 84: Pt 1, 1-57.
24. Kardel, T. (1994b) Steno - Life, Science, Philosophy. Acta Hist Sei Nat Med 42.
25. Kardel, T. (1996) Willis and Steno on muscles. J Hist Neurosci 5: 100-107.
26. Kardel, T. (1997) Prelude to two dissertations by Johann Bernoulli. Trans Am Phil Soc 87: Pt 3, 1-34.
27. Lieber, R.L., F.T. Blevins (1989) Skeletal muscle architecture of the rabbit hindlim: Functional implication of muscle design. J Morph 799: 93-101.
28. Lieber, R.L. (1996) Book review. J Biomech 29: 835.
29. Linscheid, R.L., K-N. An, R.M. Gross (1991) Quantitative analysis of the intrinsic muscles of the hand. Clin Anat 4: 265-284.
30. Lower, R. Tractatus de corde (1669/1932). English translation and facsimile in 'Early science in Oxford', vol. 9, Gunther, R.T. (ed): Oxford.
31. Mayow, J. (1674/1957) Medico-physical works; being a translation of Tractatus quinque medicophysici. English translation by 'A,C.B. and L.D.'. (Alembic Club Reprints No. 17). Livingstone, Edinburgh.
32. Meli, D.B. (1996) The neoterics and political power in Spanish Italy: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and his circle. Hist Sci 34: 57-89.
33. Naylor, M.A. (1993) The insoluble problem: Muscle in the mid to late seventeenth century; thesis, University of Melbourne.
34. Ölten, E. (1988) Concepts and models of functional architecture in skeletal muscle. Exerc Sport Sci Rev 16: 89-137.
35. Popper, K.R. (1983) In Popper, K.R., J.C. Eccles (eds): The Self and Its Brain; An Argument for Interactionism. London, Routledge.
36. Savelberg, H.H.C.M., H.C. Schamhardt (1995) The influence of inhomogeneity in architecture on the modelled force-length relationship of muscles. J Biomech 28: 187-197.
37. Scherz, G. (1987) Niels Stensen: Eine Biographie I-II. Leipzig, St. Benno-Verlag.
38. Stensen (1664); see Kardel (1986).
39. Stensen, N. (1667/1994) Specimen of elements of myology (transi. Collins, M.E., P. Maquet, T. Kardel). Steno on muscles. Trans Am Phil Soc 84:Pt 1, 76-228.
40. Van Leeuwen, J.L., C.W. Spoor (1992) Modelling mechanically stable muscle architecture. Phil Trans R Soc Lond [B] 336: 275-292.
41. Wilson, L.G. (1961) William Croone's theory of muscular contraction. Notes Rec Roy Soc Lond 16: 158-178.
42. Zajac, F.E. (1989) Muscle and tendon: Properties, models, scaling, and application to biomechanics and motor control. Crit Rev Biomed Engn 17: 359-411.