De Motu

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

De Motu (Berkeley's essay) is an essay written by George Berkeley and published in 1721
De motu corporum in gyrum (On the motion of bodies in an orbit) is a manuscript by Isaac Newton sent to Edmund Halley in November 1684
De motu cordis ("Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus") is a book published by William Harvey in 1628
De motu antiquorum is a dialogue published by Galileo Galilei in 1590

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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