BARTHEZ, Paul Joseph.

Nouvelle Méchanique des Mouvements de l'Homme et des Animaux.

1 p.l., xv, 246 pp., one leaf of errata. Large 4to, cont. mottled sheep, spine gilt, contrasting leather lettering piece on spine. Carcassonne: P. Polere, 1798. First edition of a noteworthy book on animal and human locomotion. Barthez (1734-1806), “was an extraordinarily influential French physician who helped to popularize vitalistic doctrines at a time when the most unsophisticated forms of mechanism still held sway in biology and medicine...In 1798 he published Nouvelle méchanique des mouvements de l’homme et des animaux, in which he demonstrated, through very intricate anatomical analysis, that the simple hydraulic explanations offered by the iatromechanists (particularly Borelli) would never explain the delicate balance and control of muscles that are needed for such motions as walking and swimming.”–D.S.B., II, p. 479. Barthez was an important contributor to Diderot’s Encyclopédie. Fine and handsome copy. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

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