Experiment involving animal muscles
Date
16 December 1669
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p95
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 360mm
width (page): 230mm
width (page): 230mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A metal case designed to receive the arm of a man immersed in water, with a small glass pipe cemented to it at the end, in order to measure the volume of muscles in motion. An account of the experiment by Jonathan Goddard was read to the meeting of the Royal Society on 16 December 1669.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 16 December 1669, ‘ Dr. Goddard’s account was read of an experiment formerly made by him before the society, to shew, whether the muscles of an animal, in their motion, are bigger or less in their total sum of dimensions? This account was ordered to be registered’ (Birch 2:411). The text is printed at Birch 2:412.
Related fellows
Jonathan Goddard (1612 - 1675, British) , Physician, Physician
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