1667 BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (1608 – 1679)
De vi percussionis liber.
Building on the theory of mechanics as formulated by Aristotle and Galileo, and countering objections expressed by Stephani degli Angeli among others, Borelli presented a completely mechanical account of the action of…
GMN 9644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11831
1680 –1681 BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (1608 – 1679)
De motu animalium. 2 pts.
Borelli originated the neurogenic theory of the heart’s action and first suggested that the circulation resembled a simple hydraulic system. He was the first to insist that the heart beat was a simple muscular contrac…
GMN 3669.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1749
1683 BELLINI, Lorenzo (1643 – 1704)
De urinis et pulsibus de missione sanguinis de febribus de morbis capitis, et pectoris.
Bellini began to develop his hydraulic iatromechanics in this work, in which he considered the blood as a physical fluid with simple mechanical and mathematicizable properties. He realized the value of the urine as an…
GMN 4162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1845
1704 MEAD, Richard (1673 – 1754)
De imperio solis ac lunae in corpora humana, et morbis inde oriundis.
Mead formulated the position that periodic atmospheric tides arising from planetary forces produced alterations of gravity, elasticity, and air pressure; these changes, he argued, affected the human body in health and…
GMN 10160 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12349
1968 BERNOULLI, Johann (1667 – 1740); BERNOULLI, Daniel (1700 – 1782)
Hydrodynamics and hydraulics by Daniel Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli. Translated by Thomas Carmody and Helmut Kobus.
Daniel Bernoulli’s Hydrodynamica, published in 1738, marks the first appearance of many topics central to modern science - from the kinetic theory of gases to the principles of jet propulsion. John Bernoulli’s Hydraul…
GMN 11551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13750
