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The Study of Muscles is called Myology. It had first
Until 1900'sThe view of a muscle was basic till now. Its basic role was to pull and release, but it all changed when chemistry was involved with biology because scientists had no idea how muscles contracted. The
started During The Renaissance With intellectuals like leonardo da vinci, and Andreas Vesalius. Although, people had discovered where muscles were and how skeletal systems worked by about 1500's, the ideology of how muscles contracted and extracted came in 1900's. Leonardo da vinci had drawn a lot of human anatomy systems like the virtuan man in the right.He had tried to draw human skeletal and muscular systems by touching his body and examining how it is on the inside.
Andreas Vesalius, another renaissance man had also devoted his life to Myology. He Drew more complex systems
of muscles and was very specific to each muscle. He was able to predict and know the position and operation of movement for all 640 muscles in the muscular system, as well as the specific information provided by each muscle. He was a very successful man and had been a teacher and a learner his whole life. He was called "the father of Anatomy" because his major contributions to human systems.
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theories in the 16th century provided results like, a twisting theory, An expanding theory,and spring theory but no one was really able to explain how the muscle used chemicalenergy, to convert it into mechanical energy. It
had been discovered that a muscle was much like string cheese, with millions of strings that held each other.After a long historical gap that disabled scientists observation of muscles because of insufficient technology, Coincidentally Two studies were published in the same day of the same year, That explained the sliding filament theory with the movement of proteins.
In 1950 Andrew Huxley and Rolf Niedergerke started to study contracting muscles. At the time it had already
been discovered that muscles had fibers that had millions of strings that were called miofibrils that were made up of protein strands. The hypothesis was that muscles was much like a spring, it takes normal shape once it is released. These two scientists already knew how a muscle cell worked, but needed to know how muscle cells work together, so they created a microscope that used two beams of light to magnetize the muscle to find out that some proteins strands hold position while other strands of proteins pull on the proteins that hold position.At the same time, Jean Hanson and Hugh Esmor Huxley were using a microscope called the electron
microscope. They had discovered that the muscle consisted of two materials called actin and myosin, they were arranged like puzzle pieces that pulled each other with small tentacles when contracted.
Basically, in two separate countries (Britain and America), In two separate Studies, two pairs of scientists published the sliding filament theory in the same day of 1954.
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