The text discusses the importance and functions of bones and muscles in the human body. It explains the placement and purpose of bones, noting their roles in providing stability and protecting inner parts. Additionally, it highlights the necessity of bone shapes and numbers for movement and compares human mobility to that of worms and snakes.
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Explanations can be found. As we also want the Image of the Bones according to the Left, and the Explanation-Shafts of the Muscles to be placed rightly on the Right-Hand side outside the Book, so one can, during the complete Description of the same, also view the others and have great utility from it. For when we explain the placement and service of the Bones in their names, we will also point out the Muscles; and from the most knowledge which Bone they begin, how they implant, and which Service of movement they have concerning such Bone or Limb; which then can be seen from the Muscles in the Depiction of the Bones. First, it must be noted that the Bones have various necessities in the makeup of the Human Body, of which the main ones can be said to be these: Firstly, they serve the Body's firmness and stability: Secondly, to protect some of the inner placed Parts; just as the Pelvis protects the Brain, and the Nerves of the Senses and other Noble Parts; as with the Ribs and Shoulder-blades, the internal Parts of the Chest. Thirdly, the Bones are useful for the Gait, and the neat and certain managing of the Limbs in all kinds of movement: Hence it is also of utmost necessity that the Bones are many in number, and varied in shape, and can be bent in various ways. And if it were otherwise set, humans would have to crawl like the Worms and Snakes, who do such only by