Vasco Nunez de Balboa went on to discover new lands and was appointed governor of different regions in the Americas. One of his biggest achievements was that of crossing over the southern part of the continent by crossing the present day Isthmus of Panama.
Muscles of the eyes. The are six muscles of the eyes responsible for movement of the eye. These muscles function in Agonist and Antagonist pairs enabling us to move our eyeballs in the cardinal directions, up, down, left and right. There are six muscles which are responsible for controlling the movement of the eyeballs.
These extrinsic eye muscles are some of the fastest contracting and most precisely controlled skeletal muscles in the human body and function as Agonist & Antagonists pairs to move the eyeball. 1  Superior and Inferior Rectus Muscles, 2  Lateral and Medial Rectus Muscles,hese muscles are called extrinsic eye muscles because their origin points are outside of the eyeballs (in the orbit) and insertion points are on the outer surface of the Sclera.