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Half-title of De Motu Animalum by Giovanni Borelli, 1710. Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679), Italian physiologist and physician, first published this book in 1680-1686, and in it he attempted to explain the movement of the animal body according to the laws of statics and dynamics. (Leyden, 1710).