WEBER, Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm (1806 – 1871)
1806 – 1871
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1836 CE
#604
Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge. 1 vol. and atlas.
A pioneering study of the physiology and biomechanics of motion and locomotion. The atlas contains four illustrations that were printed directly from actual bones embedded in plaster of Paris. This is one of the only …
1845 CE
#807
Experimenta, quibus probatur nervos vagos rotatione machinae galvanomagneticae irritatos, motum cordis retardare et adeo intercipare.
The discovery of the inhibitory power of the vagus. Also published in Wagner’s Handwörterbuch der Physiologie, 1846, 3, 45-51. Partial translation in J. F. Fulton’s Selected readings in the history of…