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Figures & data
Figure 1. Gravity-dependent distribution of blood in a dog and in a human. From Furst, The Heart and Circulation, 2nd ed. (Cham: Springer, 2020), p. 324.
Figure 2. The siphon principle. From Furst, The Heart and Circulation, 2nd ed. (Cham: Springer, 2020), p. 325.
Figure 3. A sophisticated version of the Torricellian experiment, with water on top of the mercury (AC) in the original tube. From Pecquet, Experimenta nova anatomica (Paris, 1651), p. 59. Reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Figure 4. Roberval’s experiment. From Pecquet, Experimenta nova anatomica (Paris, 1651), p. 51. Reproduced by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Figure 5. Borelli’s geometrical representation of the action of the valves in the veins. Here as represented in Borelli, De motu animalium (Leiden, 1685), Tabula decima sexta, Figura 1. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
