Carl Ludwig Professions : Physician Born : December 29, 1816 Died : April 23, 1895 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Carl Ludwig For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life. Carl Ludwig self life science Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions. Carl Ludwig tasks body animal Similar Authors Abram Hoffer physician Buwei Yang Chao physician Broda Otto Barnes physician Brian Day physician Anna Komnene physician Axel Munthe physician All Authors
