scholarly journals 1. On the Elementary Structure of Muscular Fibre of Animal and Organic Life

1837 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 477
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Muscular Fibre ◽  
Organic Life

scholarly journals On the elementary structure of muscular fibre of animal and organic life

1837 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 462-463
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Direction ◽  
Average Diameter ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arterial System ◽  
Muscular Fibre ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Animal Life ◽  
Partial Separation ◽  
Organic Life

The author concludes, from his microscopic examinations of the structure of muscular fibres, that those subservient to the functions of animal life have, in man, an average diameter of one 400dth of an inch, and are surrounded by transverse circular striae varying in thickness, and in the number contained in a given space. He describes these striae as constituted by actual elevations on the surface of the fibre, with intermediate depressions, considerably narrower than the diameter of a globule of the blood. Each of these muscular fibres, of which the diameter is one 400dth of an inch, is divisible into bands or fibrillae, each of which is again subdivisible into about one hundred tubular filaments, arranged parallel to one another, in a longitudinal direction, around the axis of the tubular fibre which they compose, and which contains in its centre a soluble gluten. The partial separation of the fibrillae gives rise to the appearance of broken or interrupted circular striae, which are occasionally seen. The diameter of each filament is one 16,000dth of an inch, or about a third part of that of a globule of the blood. On the other hand, the muscles of organic life are composed, not of fibres similar to those above described, but of filaments only ; these filaments being interwoven with each other in irregularly disposed lines of various thickness; having for the most part a longitudinal direction, but forming a kind of untraceable network. They are readily distinguishable from tendinous fibres, by the filaments of the latter being uniform in their size, and pursuing individually one unvarying course, in lines parallel to each other. The fibres of the heart appear to possess a somewhat compound character of texture. The muscles of the pharynx exhibit the character of animal life; while those of the oesophagus, the stomach, the intestines, and the arterial system, possess that of inorganic life. The determination of the exact nature of the muscular fibres of the iris presented considerable difficulties, which the author has not yet been able satisfactorily to overcome.

scholarly journals On the elementary structure of the muscular fibre of animal and organic life

1837 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 484-485
Keyword(s):  
Muscular Fibre ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
Made In

The author having withdrawn the paper bearing the same title which he had formerly communicated, and which was read to the Society on the 9th and 16th of February last; and having made in it several alterations and additions, consisting chiefly in notices of the discoveries of preceding anatomists in the same field of inquiry, again presents it to the Society with these improvements.

The human iris; its structure and physiology

1854 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 84-85
Keyword(s):  
Cellular Tissue ◽  
The Body ◽  
Muscular Fibre ◽  
Motor Power ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
Human Iris

The author commences by stating that the iris is an active fibro-cellular tissue, or that it may be considered to be a transition tissue from the ordinary fibro-cellular to the organic muscular: that it is a tissue differing from every other in the body; being possessed of a motor power exceeding that of any other tissue, yet differing in construction and appearance of fibre from those other tissues, the types of motion. He remarks that the microscope shows that the fibres of the iris differ essentially from muscular fibre, whether striped, or of organic life: they are pale, easily separable and readily torn; but they resemble in no essential particular muscular fibre; indeed, the effect of galvanism on the iris is totally opposed to that produced on muscular fibre.

XXI. On the elementary structure of the muscular fibre of animal and organic life

1837 ◽  
Vol 127 ◽  
pp. 371-385 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Muscular Fibre ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
The Subject

The volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society for the year 1817 contains a paper which formed the subject of the Croonian Lecture for that year by Sir Everard Home, in which he endeavours to prove the identity of the muscular filaments with the globules of the blood. To the above paper is appended a plate which exhibits an ultimate muscular filament composed of a string of globules, marked by lateral indentations corresponding to each globule.

Extinction and Thalassal Regression

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-126
Author(s):  
Philippe Lynes
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
Extinction Event ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Zero Degree

This essay examines certain intersections between writing and extinction through an eco-deconstructive account of the psychoanalysis of water. Jacques Derrida has often drawn attention to the interplay between the sound ‘O,’ and ‘eau,’ in Maurice Blanchot's own proper name, as well as in his novels, récits and theoretical works; both the zero-degree of organic excitation towards which the death drive aims and the question of water. Sandor Ferenczi's notion of thalassal regression suggests that the desire to return to the tranquility of the maternal womb parallels a response to a traumatic prehistoric extinction event undergone by organic life once forced to abandon its aquatic existence. Through Gaston Bachelard's Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter, however, one can double the imaginary of water along the axes of a personal death organic life defers and delays, and an impersonal extinction it cannot. Derrida's unpublished 1977 seminar on Blanchot's 1941 novel Thomas the Obscure, however, allows us to imagine an exteriority to extinction, the possibility

Divine Machines

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin E. H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Theoretical Interest ◽  
Living World ◽  
Mechanical Philosophy ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Generation Theory

Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz. This book offers the first in-depth examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as diverse as medicine, physiology, taxonomy, generation theory, and paleontology. The book shows how these wide-ranging pursuits were not only central to Leibniz's philosophical interests, but often provided the insights that led to some of his best-known philosophical doctrines. Presenting the clearest picture yet of the scope of Leibniz's theoretical interest in the life sciences, the book takes seriously the philosopher's own repeated claims that the world must be understood in fundamentally biological terms. Here it reveals a thinker who was immersed in the sciences of life, and looked to the living world for answers to vexing metaphysical problems. The book casts Leibniz's philosophy in an entirely new light, demonstrating how it radically departed from the prevailing models of mechanical philosophy and had an enduring influence on the history and development of the life sciences. Along the way, the book provides a fascinating glimpse into early modern debates about the nature and origins of organic life, and into how philosophers such as Leibniz engaged with the scientific dilemmas of their era.

scholarly journals Self and Dignity: The Spirituality of Survival

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Christopher Turner
Keyword(s):  
Living Organism ◽  
Active Power ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Biological Capacity ◽  
Natural Power ◽  
Individual Human ◽  
Secular Spirituality

This paper examines the nature of spirit and spirituality as organic response to threat in the context of a global pandemic. Drawing from the fields of neuroscience, philosophy and theology, the author defines spirit as the biological capacity of a living organism to maintain homeostasis in response to changes in its environment. The capacity of individual human organisms to respond to changes that are perceived as threats to homeostasis with passive and active power is posited as a spirituality that is crucial for the survival of the human species. The paper represents a form of secular spirituality that is synonymous with the natural power of organic life.

The Android and the Animal

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 503-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula K. Heise
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
The Future

Pixar's animated feature wall-E (2008) revolves around a sentient robot, a small trash compactor who faith fully continues his programmed duties seven hundred years into the future, after humans have long abandoned their polluted home planet. Landscaped into skyscrapers of compacted waste, Earth no longer seems to harbor any organic life other than a cockroach, Wall-E's only and constant friend. Similarly, in Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004; ), sequel to the groundbreaking first Ghost in the Shell anime, the love of the cyborg police officer Batou for his vanished colleague Motoko Kusanagi is surpassed only by the care and affection he displays for his pet basset hound. These films are two recent examples of works of science fiction in which the emergence of new kinds of humanoid consciousness in robots, cyborgs, or biotechnologically produced humans is accompanied by a renewed attention to animals. Why? In what ways does the presence of wild, domestic, genetically modified, or mechanical animals reshape the concerns about the human subject that are most centrally articulated, in many of these works, through technologically produced and reproduced human minds and bodies?

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