De Motu

De motu (Latin for of motion) can refer to several works:

De Motu (Berkeley's essay), an essay written by George Berkeley and published in 1721
De motu corporum in gyrum (On the motion of bodies in an orbit), a manuscript by Isaac Newton sent to Edmund Halley in November 1684
De motu cordis (Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus), a book published by William Harvey in 1628
De Motu Antiquiora, a manuscript written by Galileo Galilei in 1589–92

There are also at least three works named De motu animalium (Movement of Animals):

De motu animalium is a treatise by Aristotle
De motu animalium by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679), relating animals to machines
De motu animalium spontaneo by Pierre Petit (1617–1687), opposing René Descartes and Cartesianism

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