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De Motu (other)
''De Motu'' is Latin for 'On Motion' and is used as the title, or in the title, of a number of notable works: * ''De Motu'' (Berkeley's essay), fully ''De Motu: Sive, de Motus Principio & Natura, et de Causa Communicationis Motuum'' ('On Motion: or The Principle and Nature of Motion and the Cause of the Communication of Motions'), a 1721 essay by George Berkeley * ''De motu corporum in gyrum'' ('On the motion of bodies in an orbit'), the presumed title of a manuscript by Isaac Newton sent to Edmond Halley in November 1684 * ''Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus'' ('An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings'), or ''De motu cordis'', a 1628 book published by William Harvey * '' De Motu Antiquiora'' ('The Older Writings on Motion'), or simply ''De Motu'', Galileo Galilei's early written work on motion, written between 1589 and 1592 but not published until 1687 * '' De motu animalium'' ('On the Motion of Animals'), a treatis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Motu (Berkeley's Essay)
''De Motu: Sive, de Motus Principio & Natura, et de Causa Communicationis Motuum'' (''On Motion: or The Principle and Nature of Motion and the Cause of the Communication of Motions''), or simply ''De Motu'', is an essay written by George Berkeley and published as a tract in London in 1721. The essay was unsuccessfully submitted for a prize that had been offered by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Berkeley rejected Sir Isaac Newton's absolute space, time and motion. With this essay, Berkeley is considered to be the "precursor of Mach and Einstein" (Karl Popper). Concrete and abstract motion We must pay attention to facts regarding things and their nature, not to words or to someone's authority. The mind should be concerned with particular and concrete things themselves, not with abstract terms. The effects that are felt on our senses should be noticed. The causes of these effects are rationally inferred and are occult qualities. Gravity and force are examples of occult qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Motu Corporum In Gyrum
(from Latin: "On the motion of bodies in an orbit"; abbreviated ) is the presumed title of a manuscript by Isaac Newton sent to Edmond Halley in November 1684. The manuscript was prompted by a visit from Halley earlier that year when he had questioned Newton about problems then occupying the minds of Halley and his scientific circle in London, including Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. This manuscript gave important mathematical derivations relating to the three relations now known as "Kepler's laws of planetary motion" (before Newton's work, these had not been generally regarded as scientific laws). Halley reported the communication from Newton to the Royal Society on 10 December 1684 (Old Style). After further encouragement from Halley, Newton developed the ideas outlined by into his book . Contents One of the surviving copies of ''De Motu'' was made by being entered in the Royal Society's register book, and its (Latin) text is available online. For ease of cross- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis Et Sanguinis In Animalibus
''Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus'' (Latin, 'An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings'), commonly called ''De Motu Cordis'', is the best-known work of the physician William Harvey, which was first published in 1628 and established the circulation of blood throughout the body. It is a landmark in the history of physiology, with Harvey combining observations, experiments, measurements, and hypotheses in an extraordinary fashion to arrive at his doctrine. His work is a model of its kind and had an immediate and far-reaching influence on Harvey's contemporaries; Thomas Hobbes said that Harvey was the only modern author whose doctrines were taught in his lifetime. In ''De motu cordis'', Harvey investigated the effect of ligatures on blood flow. The book also argued that blood was pumped around the body in a "double circulation", where after being returned to the heart, it is recirculated in a closed system to the lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Motu Animalium
''Movement of Animals'' (or ''On the Motion of Animals''; Greek Περὶ ζῴων κινήσεως; Latin ''De Motu Animalium'') is one of Aristotle's major texts on biology. It sets out the general principles of animal locomotion. Pneuma All animals "possess an inborn spirit (''pneuma sumphuton'') and exercise their strength in virtue of it." (703a10). This inborn spirit is used to explain desire (''orexis''), which is classified as the "central origin (''to meson''), which moves by being itself moved." (703a5-6). Aristotle furthers this idea of being a "middle cause" by furnishing the metaphor of the movement of the elbow, as it relates to the immobility of the shoulder (703a13). The inborn ''pneuma'' is, likewise, tethered to the soul, or as he says here, ''tēn'' ''arche tēn psuchikēn, "''the origin of the soul," the soul as the center of causality. This "spirit" is not the soul itself but a limb of the soul that helps it move. The inborn spirit causes movement in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (; 28 January 1608 – 31 December 1679) was a Renaissance Italy, Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician who is often described as the father of biomechanics. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo Galilei, Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation. Trained in mathematics, Borelli also made extensive studies of Jupiter's moons, the mechanics of animal locomotion and, in microscopy, of the constituents of blood. He also used microscopy to investigate the stomatal movement of plants, and undertook studies in medicine and geology. During his career, he enjoyed the patronage of Queen Christina of Sweden. He was the first scientist to explain that animal and human bodily movements are caused by muscular contractions. Biography Giovanni Borelli was born on 28 January 1608 in the district of Castel Nuovo, in Naples. He was the first-born son of Spanish infantryman Miguel Alfonso and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Petit (scholar)
Pierre Petit (; 1617–1687) was a French scholar, physician, French poetry, poet and Latin writer. Born at Paris, Petit studied medicine at Montpellier, where he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine, MD, though he did not practice medicine afterwards. Returning to Paris, he resided for some time with the president Guillaume de Lamoignon, Lamoignon, as tutor to his sons, and afterwards as a literary companion with Nicolay (family), Aymar de Nicolai, first president of the Court of Finances, chamber of accounts. He died shortly after taking a wife. Works His most important works are:Robert Watt, (1824), ''Bibliotheca Britannica; or, A general index to British and foreign literature'', page 749 *''An Elegy upon the Death of Gabriel Naudé''. 1653. *''De Motu Animalium Spontaneo'', liber unus. 1660, 8vo. *''De Extensione Animæ et Rerum Incorporearum Natura'', libri duo. 1665. *''Epistolae Apologetica; A. Menjoti de variis Sectis Amplectendis examen: ad Medicos Parisienses, Autore A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
