Physiological essay on Gulliver’s Travels: a correction after three centuries

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726, was analyzed from the viewpoint of scaling in comparative physiology. According to the original text, the foods of 1724 Lilliputians, tiny human creatures, are needed for Gulliver, but the author found that those of 42 Lilliputians and of 1/42...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The journal of physiological sciences 2019-03, Vol.69 (2), p.421-424
1. Verfasser:	Kuroki, Toshio
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	18th century Academic libraries Blood pressure Body mass index Body weight Comparative analysis Energy consumption Food Food requirement Gulliver’s Travels Hastings, Macdonald Kleiber’s law Mathematicians Neck Physiological aspects Physiology Power law Quetelet’s law Respiration Scaling Short Communication Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
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