[Medicine - Gastrology] VALLISNIERI, Antonio Considerazioni, ed esperienze intorno alla generazione de' Vermi ordinari del corpo umano [...]. Padua, Seminario, 4to: [12]-pp.; 4 pl. (light spotting). 19th-c. half calf, marbled boards, gilt.-orn. spine, signed R. Hoeppli with 4 raised bands. Good copy with large margins. An important treatise on intestinal worms, which contributed to the spontaneous generation controversy of the 17th century, with 4 large, folding engr. Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730), or Vallisnieri was a pupil of Marcello Malpighi (1628-at Bologna and became professor of practical medicine at Padua. In comparison with contemporary scientific thought, Vallisnieri's work has a very modern character. Following empiricists Galileo Galilei and Francis Bacon he rejected scholastic knowledge and trusted solely in direct observation and in experiments. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) - Blake - Wellcome V:
[Medicine - Gastrology] VALLISNIERI, Antonio Considerazioni, ed esperienze intorno alla generazione de' Vermi ordinari del corpo umano [...]. Padua, Seminario, 4to: [12]-pp.; 4 pl. (light spotting). 19th-c. half calf, marbled boards, gilt.-orn. spine, signed R. Hoeppli with 4 raised bands. Good copy with large margins. An important treatise on intestinal worms, which contributed to the spontaneous generation controversy of the 17th century, with 4 large, folding engr. Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730), or Vallisnieri was a pupil of Marcello Malpighi (1628-at Bologna and became professor of practical medicine at Padua. In comparison with contemporary scientific thought, Vallisnieri's work has a very modern character. Following empiricists Galileo Galilei and Francis Bacon he rejected scholastic knowledge and trusted solely in direct observation and in experiments. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) - Blake - Wellcome V:
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