{"id":2851,"date":"2014-04-17T19:50:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2014-04-17T19:50:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T19:50:57","slug":"the-father-of-biomechanics-giovanni-alfonso-borelli-1680-1681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/04\/17\/the-father-of-biomechanics-giovanni-alfonso-borelli-1680-1681\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father of Biomechanics: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, 1680-1681"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"File:Giovanni Alfonso Borelli.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/8d\/Giovanni_Alfonso_Borelli.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"517\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Borelli. [Image via wikipedia.org]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679) was an Italian Renaissance physicist who sought to make mechanical laws applicable to all physiological phenomena. Borelli, who studied at Padua under Galileo, regarded the human body essentially as a machine whose functions could be explained by the laws of physics. He mentored Marcello Malpighi&#8211; who went on to become the father of microscopical anatomy&#8211; and was instrumental in the foundation of the Iatrophysical school of thought, which used mathematical and physical principles to understand the material world. At his laboratory in Pisa, Borelli made a number of important discoveries about respiration, circulation, and the muscular system. <em>De Motu Animalium <\/em>is an illustrated study of human and animal muscular exertion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File:Giovanni Alfonso Borelli De Motu Animalium 1680.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/98\/Giovanni_Alfonso_Borelli_De_Motu_Animalium_1680.jpg\/800px-Giovanni_Alfonso_Borelli_De_Motu_Animalium_1680.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"204\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Model for an early submarine. [wikimedia.com] <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.anthrobot.com\/press_images\/figure10.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthrobot.com\/press_images\/figure10.jpg\" width=\"327\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Hinged elbow joint. [anthrobot.com]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archivioflaviobeninati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/borelli.jpg\" width=\"431\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><em>Bearing weight. [archivioflaviobeninati.com]<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borelli. [Image via wikipedia.org] Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679) was an Italian Renaissance physicist who sought to make mechanical laws applicable to all physiological phenomena. Borelli, who studied at Padua under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}