Involuntary movement. Descartes' idea of how impulses from limbs reach the brain. He believed all nerves to be hollow. From Rene Descartes' 'Opera Philosophica', 1692. Woodcut

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Involuntary movement. Descartes' idea of how impulses from limbs reach the brain. He believed all nerves to be hollow. From Rene Descartes' 'Opera Philosophica', 1692. Woodcut

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