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Title: Practical Suggestions on the General Improvement of the
Navigation of the Shannon, etc. With a chart.]Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes
geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of
competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and
Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France,
Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below
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British Library Steele, Thomas; 1828. vii. 151 p.; 8 . 10390.cc.36.
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From The Fall Of Corunna To The Occupation Of Cadiz By The French.
From The Fall Of Corunna To The Occupation Of Cadiz By The French.
Besides his more famous works of philosophy--"Discourse on Method,
Meditations on First Philosophy, and "Principles of
Philosophy--Descartes devoted a great deal of time and thought to
the study of physiology and anatomy. An account of his activities
in 1629 reports that he visited butcher shops on an almost daily
basis to study specific animal organs. In the 1630s, he assisted in
the dissection of human cadavers--all to satisfy his intense
curiosity about how bodies, animal and human, work. The fruits of
this research can be found in his "Treatise of Man, a work that he
decided not to publish for fear of suffering the same fate as
Galileo. Consequently, this fascinating treatise did not appear
until twelve years after his death. Among its many intriguing
features are his detailed descriptions of the nervous system and
its interactions with the muscles to create movement in response to
stimulus. Though we now know that many of these details are wrong,
Descartes' understanding that much of the body functions as a
mechanism was a stroke of genius. He is the first to describe the
reflex arc, anticipating Pavlov and the behaviorists by almost 300
years. The idea of the body as a kind of animal machine that
functions according to physical laws was an immense advance over
the previous scholastic notions based on Aristotle, which merely
begged the question of how the various organs of the body work by
stating that it is in their nature to perform their specific
functions. This is a landmark work that students of history,
medicine, biology, and the history of science will find richly
rewarding.
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