Machina CarnisMachina Carnis

Author	: Dorothy M. Needham
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 828
Release	: 1971-11-30
ISBN 10	: 0521079748
ISBN 13	: 9780521079747
Language	: EN, FR, DE, ES & NL

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Machina Carnis Book Description:

This book is an account of the centuries of experiment and speculation that have led to our understanding of how muscles work.

Language: en
Pages: 828

Machina Carnis

Authors: Dorothy M. Needham

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 1971-11-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This book is an account of the centuries of experiment and speculation that have led to our understanding of how muscles work.

Language: en
Pages: 605

Uterine Function

Authors: M.E. Carsten

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-11 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

The frontispiece, Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the embryo in the womb, was chosen as a starting point for this book. It was Leonardo who in his notebooks and

Language: en
Pages: 200

The Scientific Imaginary in Visual Culture

Authors: Anneke Smelik

Categories: Art

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH

Popular media, art and science are intricately interlinked in contemporary visual culture. This book analyses the scientific imaginary that is the result of the

Language: en
Pages: 604

Pioneering British Women Chemists: Their Lives And Contributions

Authors: Marelene Rayner-canham

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-30 - Publisher: World Scientific

'The book neatly illuminates a forgotten history of female chemists — and this is not an overstatement. It contains a multitude of names, events and socio-eco

Language: en
Pages: 798

The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

Authors: Marilyn Ogilvie

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-12-16 - Publisher: Routledge

Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this milestone reference combines "facts-fronted" fast access to biographical details with highly rea

Language: en
Pages: 339

Strength Coaching in America

Authors: Jason P. Shurley

Categories: Sports & Recreation

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-13 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

It’s hard to imagine, but as late as the 1950s, athletes could get kicked off a team if they were caught lifting weights. Coaches had long believed that stren

Language: en
Pages: 471

Mechanism of Muscular Contraction

Authors: Jack A. Rall

Categories: Medical

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-21 - Publisher: Springer

This book describes the evolution of ideas relating to the mechanism of muscular contraction since the discovery of sliding filaments in 1954. An amazing variet

Language: en
Pages: 517

A Companion to Curation

Authors: Brad Buckley

Categories: Art

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-29 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the knowled

Language: en
Pages: 220

Embodiment and Mechanisation

Authors: Daniel Black

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-29 - Publisher: Routledge

Drawing on philosophical, neurological and cultural answers to the question of what constitutes a body, this book explores the interaction between mechanistic b

Language: en
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Venantius Fortunatus: Vita Sancti MartiniPrologue and Books I–II

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Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This volume provides a new critical text of the Prologue and the first two books of Venantius Fortunatus' Vita Sancti Martini, a work, written in the latter hal