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Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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hat there were few of suchnames left for appropriation. I have already referred to the fact that the influence of thediscoveries of Torricelli and Galileo soon made itself felt in England,and how the Royal Society came to be founded. Conspicuousamongst its early members were Glisson, Boyle, Hooke, and Lower. The early part of the seventeenth century, when Descartes reached manhood, is oneof the great epochs of the intellectual life of mankind. At that time physical sciencesuddenly strode into the arena of public and familiar thought, and openly challenged, notonly Philosophy and the Church, but that common ignorance which passes by thename of common sense. The assertion of the motion of the earth was a defiance to all these, and Physical Science threw down her glove by the hand of Galileo But two hundred years have passed, and, however feeble or faulty her soldiers, PhysicalScience sits crowned as one of the legitimate rulers of the world of thought. (T. H.Huxley, On Descartes, 1S72.)
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X oco> cc QUJ CC u. co > -J> COCO u CO o Z < cc XLU oa:z LU <: D LULU -J Z ( 39 ) The following is the account given in 1696 by Dr. Wallis, one ofthe founders of the Society :— Our business was (precluding matters of theology and state affairs) to discourseand consider of philosophical enquiries, and such as related thereunto :—as Physick,Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks. Chymicks, Me-chanicks, and Natural Experiments; with the state of these studies and their cultivationat home and abroad. We then discoursed of the circulation of the blood, the valves inthe veins, the vence lactece, the lymphatic vessels, the Copernican hypothesis, the natureof comets and new stars, the satellites of Jupiter, the oval shape (as it then appeared) ofSaturn, the spots on the sun and its turning on its own axis, the inequalities andselenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement oftelescopes and grinding of glasse

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