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should be rapid in winter; slow in summer, unless it be under a burning heat,
and that fleshy people should walk faster, thin people slower,

? Hippocrates, and Aristotle later, each devised certain empirical
theories about the relationship of anatomical structure to human mechanics;
but the real scidntific approach came much laters

‘During the Renaissance, German, English, French and Italian Deiat
ogists and physicists attacked the problem of analysing animal and human move~
ments, These studies form the real beginning of our modern understanding of
| kinesiology. Outstanding among these pioneers in this field were two physiol-
ogists, Descartes, French, and Von Haller, Swiss; one anatomist and physician,
Galilei, Italian; and one physicist, Borelli, Italian.

‘But the 19th century brought still greater contributions, ‘he basis
facts of neuromuscular functioning were added to previous research by the Weber
brothers, Sherrington, and Helmholtz.

Experimental work through successive decades reaffirmed the soundness
of many of these theories of nervous stimulation and inhibition, and muscular
reaction, : 7

Then came ‘such scientists as Braune, Fischer, Duchenne and Marey, who
studied the problems of muscle mechanics, of body balance, and of graphic ree
presentation as related particularly to locomotion, It was out of these
studies that the science of icinesiology was founded.

Today, we still continue to probe. into the mysteries of human fumce-
tioning. Mental activity is largely manifest in muscular forns; ; and both are
dependent upon the functioning of the rest of the body. Thus movement (motor
activity) becomes of interest to the physiologist, psychologist, the educator,
and the physician, But it is through the physical educator and the field of
physical education that the remedial specialists, with their detailed undere

standing of the locomotor and manipulative skills, should come,

Steam aati.

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