Enquiries into human nature : in VI anatomic praelections, in the new theatre of the Royal College of Physicians in London (1680)
Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707 · London : Printed by M. White, for Robert Boulter, at the Turks Head in Cornhill, over against the Royal Exchange · leaf 368
efoie hinted) by prolongingtheir Tendons to greater length, than thofe of otherMufcles: For although, to the fuftaining of a weight up-on a f^eBis^ it be all one whether the fuftaining Cord beihorter or longer, provided the fame degree of its ad-vance toward a perpendicular be obferved •, yet td… … Tuge ^5*7 • Imagine A B to reprefent a FtUU whofe Fulclment isat A, and upon whofe other end B a weight is hung-,C D a ihorter oblique cord,and C E a longer in the famedegree of Obliquity .Now to the fiiftainlng of this weightat the end of the Ft6iis B, both thefe oblique cords areequally…
