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The following article will probably answer your
question.
Ku-Ming Chang - Motus Tonicus : Georg Ernst Stahl's
Formulation of ...
... which he compared to the tides of the sea, the
subject of his 1696 work
"Positiones de aestu maris microcosmici, seu fluxu et
refluxu sanguinis: ..."
muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_
of_the_history_of_medicine/v078/78.4chang.html
C.J. Scheiner
--- James Larrabee <jlarrabee@LAW.BERKELEY.EDU> wrote:
> Thank you ... There's the old bromide about being
> careful what you ask for.
>
> It seems that this deals with fluxes of the blood as
> affecting the
> senses through some "tonic motion" of porous parts,
> and involving some
> theory of causation of fevers. A medical historian
> would have to weigh
> in here.
>
> "Microcosmic sea" is interesting, man being
> considered a reflection in
> miniature, or microcosm, of the great universe, in
> the philosophy of the
> time.
>
> James Larrabee
> Robbins Cataloger
> Law Library
> University of California, Berkeley
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