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In Lecture 9, Bernstein continues his survey of the nervous system with a discussion of the brain and then goes on to look at the study of human movement, the aim of biomechanics.
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Alfred Walter Campbell (1868–1937) was an Australian neurologist who worked in London, Vienna and Prague.
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In 1925, P.P. Shibanov, S.A. L’vov and P.N. Matynov researched and selected antique academic publications for a jubilee exhibition celebrating 200 years of the Academy of Sciences. The exhibition was called ‘The International Book’ in collaboration with the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
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Ottomar Anschütz (1846–1907) was a German inventor, photographer and chronophotographer.
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Etienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904) was a French scientist, photographer and chronophotographer.
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Christian Wilhelm Braune (1831 Leipzig—1892) was a German anatomist and Otto Fischer (1861–1917) a physiologist. Inspired by Marey they conducted experimental studies of human gait and research on the centres of gravity in the human body as Bernstein describes.
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Krikor Khachaturovich Kekcheev (1893–1948) was an eminent Russian scientist, an expert in physiology and psychophysiology of labour. From 1920 to 1925 he was the head of Psychology, the scientific secretary of the State Psychoneurological Institute in Moscow, then deputy director and head of the department of research (in the field of physiology of labour) of TsIT.
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Bernstein, N.A. (2020). Lecture 8. In: Biomechanics for Instructors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36163-1_9
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