A new essay on muscular motion : founded on experiments, observations, and the Newtonian philosophy / By Browne Langrish.

  • Langrish, Browne, -1759.
Date:
M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]
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Credit: A new essay on muscular motion : founded on experiments, observations, and the Newtonian philosophy / By Browne Langrish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and obfcure it may feem at prefent$ and if I am not fo happy as to explore all its Secrets, yet I hope, at lead, to excite home better Genius to perform the Task. It mud be confeflfed indeed, that the principal Agent in Mufcular Motion is too fubtile for us ever to bring its Manner of Action to a mathe¬ matical Demonftration 5 but however if vve can be fo happy as to produce a Theory, every Way confonant with the Structure and Make of the Mufcular Fibres, and with the known Laws of Matter and Motion, and it does not at the fame Time, in the lead clafti with, or obftru<5l any of the animal Functions, there can be no Reafon for rejecting it, tho’ it cannot be mechanically ex¬ plain’d. The noble Boyle |] fays, u If a Matter of “ Fa<ft, or other Propofition be proved by Argu- “ ments competent in their Kind, we ought not II Rules for judging of Things above Reafon, B 2 to