The Flight of Birds, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Of the long list of works that issued from his pen two only have carried his fame through the following centuries to modern times' Theorice Medicaaarum Planetarum, published at Florence, and the better known posthumous De Motu Animalium. The former deals with the movement of Jupiter's satellites, and exhibits an instinctive knowledge of gravitation without actually expressing it - a common characteris tic of scientists of that day who were wiser than they knew The publication of De Motu Animalium, the year after his death, put Borelli at once at the head of the Iatromathematical School, who sought to apply mathematics to the mechanics of living bodies. It raised a vast storm of discussion among the learned throughout Europe, a ferment that clarified into admiration.

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