Annales Kinesiologiae (Dec 2011)

BONE COMPOSITION AND THE BIRTH OF QUANTITATIVE CHEMISTRY

  • Natale Gaspare De Santo,
  • Rosa Maria De Santo,
  • Rado Pišot,
  • Carmela Bisaccia,
  • Alessandra Perna,
  • Mariano Bizzarri,
  • Vito Andrea Di Leo,
  • Giancarlo Bilancio,
  • Massimo Cirillo

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 2

Abstract

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Bone is an important tissue for space specialists since it undergoes significant changes under microgravity conditions and its healing is slow. Bone has been considered a special tissue since the very inception of medical theories. In Akragas, Empedocles’ (493-432 BC) hypothesis regarding bone was that it was made of two parts earth, two parts water and four parts fire, thus marking the beginning of quantitative chemistry.