1684 12 p., 1 folded engraved plate (depicting human arm and leg mechanics). disbound (no covers). Pages with worming in left blank margin and upper blank margin (not affecting the text or figures). Published in: Miscellanea Curiosa sive Ephemeridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicum Academiae Naturae Curiosorum (the first journal on medicine and natural history). Rare.Johann Christoph Sturm (1635-1703) was a German philosopher, scientist, and astronomist.