Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . nts. Its segments and their appended limbs, its visceralanatomy, and its development are all distinctly arthropodan, andshow that we have here almost the most primitive imaginableform of the Tracheate Arthropoda. Peripatus is about li incheslong, inhabits decayed wood, and has the curious and suggestivehabit of spinning a web over itself when alarmed. (See of a Naturalist inthe Challenger.) ARTICULATE SOUNDS. See Letters. ARTICULATION. See Joints. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. With the exception of the celebrateda
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . nts. Its segments and their appended limbs, its visceralanatomy, and its development are all distinctly arthropodan, andshow that we have here almost the most primitive imaginableform of the Tracheate Arthropoda. Peripatus is about li incheslong, inhabits decayed wood, and has the curious and suggestivehabit of spinning a web over itself when alarmed. (See of a Naturalist inthe Challenger.) ARTICULATE SOUNDS. See Letters. ARTICULATION. See Joints. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. With the exception of the celebratedartificial hand of the German knight, Gotz von Berlichingen*—who flourished in the early part of the 10th c. (1513), and whowas named Tlie Iron-handed — whichweighed 3 pounds,was so constructedas to grasp a swordor lance, and was in-veiited by a me-chanic of Nurem-berg, our knowledgeof artificial limbsdates from the timeof Ambrose Parewhose (Eutres dt,Chiruryie ^\?ere pub-lished in 1575. Thetwelfth chapter ofthat volume, as trans-latetl by Thomas Johnson in 1605, shows. Fig. 1.
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