Maaxel and the Service of the Muscles.

Such things outside this unity often have a completely different outcome, because one might often find that when one means to gently touch someone with the hand, one actually delivers a firm jaw-slapping blow.

In our opinion, we believe that the movement of the muscles, as explained by the anatominations and philosophers, is only clarified by the said reasoning, because they believe that if people were constructed out of such patches and skins, tendons and bones, they would have no other means of moving themselves other than by the said manner; but not because they have seen with clear and true experience that it happens so. The astute researcher Steno, who has done much precise investigation regarding this material, thinks that up to now, the wonderful way of muscle movement is not known. He has attempted to explain the structure and form of it in a mathematical manner: The manner succinctly proposed by him was as follows: he first imagines the muscle in a completely different shape than common teaching: for he says that the fleshy part, commonly called the belly, is depicted as an oblique-shaped parallel ground, that is, a figure with six flat quadrilateral sides, where the two opposite each other are parallel; however, all sides meet at right angles with each other. Except for the two extreme ones; because these would form slanting angles with the lower and upper sides: in doing so, the belly of the muscle forms in a certain way.

Translation Notes

- "Maaxel" is difficult to translate directly, but in the context, it refers to an aspect or action related to muscle functionality.

- The term "anatominations" is a historical reference to those who study anatomy, fitting the context of muscle study.