Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 706

ANTONIO VALLISNIERI (1661-1730) Opere fisico-mediche. Appresso Sebastiano Coleti 1733 Vol. I: [2] lxxxii, 469 pp.; Vol. II: [4] 551 pp.; Vol. III: [4] 676 pp., plates (part fold.). 35.7 cm.

Vallisnieri was a pupil of Malpighi (see No. 569 ff.) at Bologna and eventually became professor of practical medicine at Padua. Apart from his medical work, he was most active in entomology and continued the studies of the generation of insects begun by Redi (see No. 561 ff.). He also studied mammalian reproduction and correctly concluded that Graaf's follicles were not true mammalian eggs, as Graaf (see No. 636 ff.) and others believed. This three-volume set of his collected works was edited by his son, Antonio, and contains his writings on medicine, entomology, zoology, and natural history.

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