William Harvey - Exercitationes De Generatione Animalium. Quibus Accedunt Quaedam De Partu: De Membranis Ac Humoribus Uteri & De Conceptione.

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Una delle tre edizioni di Amsterdam, uscite nello stesso anno della prima; queste edizioni hanno in pi&ugrave; rispetto a quella londinese un secondo frontespizio, inciso in rame. L'opera si compone di una prefazione e di 72 <em>Exercitationes </em>numerate&nbsp;pi&ugrave; molte non numerate. Cfr. <em>Heirs of Hippocrates </em>436: &laquo;After the publication of <em>De motu cordis</em>, 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 benefit of the compound microscope, his work was necessarily limited; nevertheless, nothing comparable had been done since Aristotle. He disbelieved the previously-held doctrine of &quot;preformation&quot; of the fetus, maintaining instead that it proceeds from the ovum by gradual building up of its parts. Always slow to publicize his findings, Harvey was only after some years persuaded by his friend, Sir George Ent, to put them into print&raquo;; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Osler </span>711; <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Russell </span>376; <em>Walleriana </em>4119; <em>Welcome </em>III, 220.</span></p>