Physiological essay on Gulliver's Travels: a correction after three centuries.
Food requirement
Gulliver’s Travels
Kleiber’s law
Power law
Quetelet’s law
Scaling
Journal
The journal of physiological sciences : JPS
ISSN: 1880-6562
Titre abrégé: J Physiol Sci
Pays: Japan
ID NLM: 101262417
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2019
Mar 2019
Historique:
received:
31
10
2018
accepted:
17
12
2018
pubmed:
6
1
2019
medline:
29
5
2019
entrez:
6
1
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726, was analyzed from the viewpoint of scaling in comparative physiology. According to the original text, the foods of 1724 Lilliputians, tiny human creatures, are needed for Gulliver, but the author found that those of 42 Lilliputians and of 1/42 Brobdingnagians (gigantic human creatures) are enough to support the energy of Gulliver. The author further estimated their heartbeats, respiration rates, life spans and blood pressure. These calculations were made by the use of three equations, i.e., body mass index (BMI = W/H
Identifiants
pubmed: 30610552
doi: 10.1007/s12576-018-00655-4
pii: 10.1007/s12576-018-00655-4
pmc: PMC6373404
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
421-424Références
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