The different chapters of the present book were published separately each as a complete entity in the Proceedings of the Royal Saxon Society for Sciences. Chapter 1 appeared in 1895 under the names of Wilhelm Braune and Otto Fischer although Braune died immediately after the initial experiments, before the recordings had been interpreted. Chapters 2-6 were signed by Fischer only and appeared in 1899, 1900, 1901, 1903 and 1904. Basic data needed for this investigation of the human gait had been provided previously. A research on the centre of gravity ofthe human body and its different segments...

This is another classic contribution by Braune and Fischer to the field of biomechanics. The pendulum method was employed to ascertain ac curately the moments and radii of inertia of the human body and its different parts about all axes - transverse, oblique or longitudinal. This elegant method is described in detail, together with the results. Relations were found between the centres of inertia on one hand and the lengths and diameters of the body segments on the other. These data were originally prepared for the authors' later work, The Human Gait, to determine the forces exerted on and by...

IV Als Anhang ist diesem Theil eine der Besprechungen beigefugt, welche CnLADNr der unter XIV abgedruckten Habilitationsschrift seines jungen Freundes hat angedeihen lassen. W. 'YEBER's Doktordissertation wird man unter den hier zusammen gestellten Abhandlungen vergebens suchen; sie ist nach dem Ergehniss von mir angestellter Erkundigungen nicht gedruckt worden und auch handschriftlich im Nachlass nicht aufgefunden. Der Titel "Theoria efficaciae laminarum maxime mobilium arcteque tubos aerem sonantem continentes claudentium" lasst mit Sicherheit schliessen, dass sie in erweiterter Form als...