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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Review of: MICHAEL FRAMPTON, Embodiments of Will. Anatomical and Physiological Theories of Voluntary Animal Motion from Greek Antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C.–A.D. 1300, Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2008, xxxv + 623 pp. (ISBN 978-3-639-08294-4), in BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 85/2, 2011 (ISSN: 0007-5140 E-ISSN: 1086-3176), pp. 132-133.

Sabrina Lucia Maria Grimaudo

subject

Storia della scienza antica e rinascimentaleGalenobiologia grecacerebrocentrismo.cardiocentrismoAristotele

description

Review of Michael Frampton's monograph which reconstructs the history of the two main theories on the origin of voluntary animal motion from Aristotle to Mondino dei Luzzi (fourteenth century): the cardiocentric theory and the cerebrocentric one.

http://hdl.handle.net/10447/62074