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Historical Bibliography Updated: October 7, 2024

Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge. 1 vol. and atlas.

Publication Details

Göttingen: in der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1836 CE.

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 medical books that included illustrations printed by a "nature printing" process. Translated into English by P. Maquet and R. Furlong, as Mechanics of the human walking apparatus, Berlin: Springer, 1992.

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Entry Number#604
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/458
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External URLmechanik-der-menschlichen-gehwerkzeuge-1-vol-and-atlas

Geographic Context

Publication place: Göttingen

Mentioned in annotation: Berlin; Paris