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Historical Bibliography Updated: March 31, 2020

Dissertatio de structura et motu musculari.

Publication Details

London: Samuel Richardson, 1738 CE.

This was the text of the first Croonian Lecture at the Royal Society. In it Stuart promoted a strictly hydraulic iatromechanism as a theory of muscular motion. This work was translated into English in 1739. Digital facsimile of the 1738 edition from Google Books at this link.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#11713
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/13914
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLdissertatio-de-structure-et-motu-musculari

Geographic Context

Publication place: London