MALPIGHI (Marcello) Opera Omnia seu Thesaurus... - Lot 884 - Briscadieu

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MALPIGHI (Marcello) Opera Omnia seu Thesaurus... - Lot 884 - Briscadieu
MALPIGHI (Marcello) Opera Omnia seu Thesaurus Locupletissimus Botanico-medico-anatomicus Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), Vander, 1687. Followed by De Structura Glandularum Conglobatarum consimiliumque partium Epistola, regiae societati Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), Vander, 1690. Followed by Opera Posthuma. Amsterdam, Gallet, 1693. 3 works (one in 2 volumes) in one volume in-4 : 7f., 170pp. 11f. (index); illustrated with a frontispiece (drawn and engraved by Adrian Schonebeek), 54 numbered plates and 34 plates (containing 142 figures) - 379pp. 19f. (index); illustrated with 29 plates (on various parts), 4 plates (containing 25 figures), as well as 10 plates (containing 61 figures) - 16pp. - 7f. 387pp; illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 folding plates in fine. Bound in contemporary Dutch stiff vellum, handwritten title on spine, 2 sets of double fillets framing, one with fleurons in spandrels, large cold diamond with arabesques in the centre of the boards, one spine cracked. Malpighi is considered the founder of histology or microscopic anatomy. He was also the first to dissect a silkworm under a microscope. He was also the first to study the appearance of the chick embryo and to work on embryology. In botany, he was a pioneer in the study of plant development and the microscopic study of plant tissues. This work contains the famous work on plant anatomy, the embryonic development of the chick, the anatomy of the silkworm (the first monograph on an invertebrate), the discovery of the existence of capillaries that complete the chain of blood circulation postulated by Harvey.
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