Treatise on Man Simplified
Renatus Cartesius 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650 was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who invented analytic geometry
To The Reader
Preface by Florentius Schuyl
To The Reader Part 2
Preface by Florentius Schuyl
The Machine of the Human Body
Articles 1-4
The Pulse or Beat of the Arteries
Articles 5-7
How the Blood Goes Through the Body
Articles 8-9
How the Blood is Converted into Animal Spirits
Article 10
How the Animal Spirits Move the Muscles
Article 10b
How the Animal Spirits Move the Muscles
Article 10c
How Does the Body Breathe and Swallow Food?
Articles 11-13
How Do External Objects Affect the Sense-organs?
Articles 11-13
Taste and Smell
Articles 14-15
Hearing and Harmony
Articles 16-17
Sight
Article 18
Convexity and Refraction
Article 19
Pupil Size and Successive Vision
Article 19b
Distance Perception
Article 20
Distance Perception and Optical Illusions
Article 20
Hunger and Thirst
Articles 21-25
The Momentum of Animal Spirits
Articles 24-25
Animal Spirits and Digestion
Articles 26-27
The Surface of the Brain
Article 28
The Distribution of the Animal Spirits
Article 28b
How are Our Ideas Formed?
Articles 30-31a
Ideas and Memory
Articles 31