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“ phonfns Borelli , embracing his Hypothecs Yet 
blames him for imagining that the Machinul<e in the 
mufcular Fibres were of a rhomboidal Figure j and 
will appear to have made no other Alteration, even, 
in what he finds Fault with in that Author’s Rhom- 
hus's, than to cut off their lateral Angles ; and by 
that means reduce them to elliptical Forms bound 
together, at their Extremities, very regularly by tranf- 
verfe Fibres. 
XXXIV. 
The Account he gives of the Strufture of mufcti- 
lar Fibres is the fame with that of the foregoing Au- 
thor, fo needs not be repeated here : We fnall there- 
fore only give the Reader an Abftraft: of fome So- 
ft ions of his differ tat ion on mufcular Motion , which 
regard the Part of this Subjeft v/e are at prefent con- 
cerned in. 
XXXV. 
In his fecond Seftion, after he has mention’d Bo- 
relli’s Infpeftion of a boil’d Mufclc, he fays, The Fi- 
bres of the little Bundles are collefted together by 
tranfverfe Fibres, which are parallel to each other, 
and form with the former a reticular Texture; to 
which he aferibes no other Ufe, than to confine the 
moving Fibres, left, in performing their proper Aftion, 
they fhould be forced too far afunder * from their 
natural 
* We muft here afTent to Bernouilli, that the membranous Fibres, 
which not only inclofe every Mufcle, but .proceed ■ to inveft every 
Fibre, 
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