Abstract
PROFESSOR FICK, who has recently been moved from Zurich to Würzburg to fill the chair of Physiology there, vacant through the untimely death of Von Bezold, is well known not only to physiologists by his many excellent researches, but also to a far wider circle through the now well-known experiments on muscular physics carried out by himself and Wislicenus. In these six popular lectures he attempts to carry an intelligent and attentive audience, not possessing special scientific knowledge, swiftly through the great story of the transformation of force, showing them, in a quiet, lucid way, how the parts are played on those two great stages, the macrocosm of the universe and the microcosm of the human body.
Die Naturkrafte in ihrer Wechselbesichung.
By Adolf Fick. (Würzburg, 1869. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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FOSTER, M. Die Naturkrafte in ihrer Wechselbesichung . Nature 1, 53 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001053a0
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