Re: (SNES) The Butterfly Effect and Astronomy

["Les Coleman" <les11@cox.net>]

Steve
>  Is this the same Purkinje after whom the Purkinje fibers in the heart
were named?

I pretty sure it is, but I am not sure. Johannes Evangilista Purkinje
(1787-1869)  was a Czech (more precisely Bohemian) physiologist. He was a
professor at the Univiversities of Breslau and  Prague, and was active in
the Czech nationalist movement. He improved microscope technique and made
numerous contributions in the fields of histology and embryology. He
discovered the apertures of the sweat glands and the large ramified nerve
cells of the cerebellum now known by his name.
In his research in ophthalmology he worked on the functions of the eye,
studied subjective visual figures and recurrent images, and described
important phenomena concerning the eye's sensitivity to color. Many parts of
the body are called Purkinjean cells, or Purkinjean structures, of
Purkinjean effect (etc.). I am not sure about the fibers in the heart
although it certainly seems probable.

Les
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