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.
- Authors: Grimaudo, SLM
- Publication year: 2011
- Type: Recensione in rivista (Recensione in rivista)
- Key words: Storia della scienza antica e rinascimentale; biologia greca; Aristotele; Galeno; cardiocentrismo; cerebrocentrismo.
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/62074
Abstract
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.