Harvey William Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam De partu... Amstelodami: Apud Joannem Janssonium, 1651. In-12° (mm 133x73). Pagine [36], l’ultima bianca, 415, [1] bianca, [4]. Frontespizio calcogra co,
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capilettera e testatine incise in legno. Lavoro di tarlo nel margine interno del fascicolo)()(, per il resto buon esemplare. Legatura coeva in piena pergamena semi-rigida con titoli manoscritti al dorso e lacerti di legacci. Ex-libris Giuseppe Franchini stampato alla sguardia posteriore. Una delle tre edizioni di Amsterdam, dello stesso anno della prima; queste edizioni hanno in più rispetto aquella londinese un secondo frontespizio, inciso in rame. L’opera si compone di una prefazione e di 72 Exercitationes numerate più molte non numerate. Cfr. Heirs of Hippocrates 436: «After the publication of De motu cordis, Harvey turned his attention to the study of generation. Even if Harvey had not discovered the circulation of the blood, his remarkable work on embryology would have placed him in the front ranks of biological scientists. Without bene tof the compound microscope, his work was necessarily limited; nevertheless, nothing comparable had been done since Aristotle. He disbelieved the previously-held doctrine of “preformation” of the fetus, maintaining instead that it proceeds from the ovum by gradual building up of its parts. Always slow to publicize his ndings, Harvey was only after some years persuaded by his friend, Sir George Ent, to put them into print»; O 711; R 376; Walleriana 4119; Wellcome Iii, 220.
