| Reference number | CLP/12i/22 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'Experiment designed to shew whether the muscles of an animal, in their action are bigger or lesse in their totall sum of dimensions' by Dr [Jonathan] Goddard |
| Date | [1669] |
| Description | Paper describing an experiment with a case for an arm that can be immersed in water with a glass tube attached. The level of water in the tube would change with each pulse of the individual's arm as well as on contracting muscles of the arm. Includes figure showing the arm case.
Subject: Physiology
Read to the Royal Society on 16 December 1669. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | RBO/4/25 |
| JBO/4/102 |
| CLP/12i/22/1 |
| CLP/12i/22/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8226 | Goddard; Jonathan (c1617 - 1675); physician, chemist, and anatomist | c1617 - 1675 |