REDI, Francesco (1626-1697/98). Esperienze intorno alla generazione degli' insetti... scitte in una lettera all' illustrissimo signor Carlo Dati. Florence: All'Insegna della Stella, 1668.
REDI, Francesco (1626-1697/98). Esperienze intorno alla generazione degli' insetti... scitte in una lettera all' illustrissimo signor Carlo Dati. Florence: All'Insegna della Stella, 1668. 4° (235 x 168mm). Half-title, title-page in red and black with engraved emblem of the Accademia della Crusca, proverb in Arabic, 6 full-page unnumbered engravings, 29 numbered engraved plates of which 3 folding, 3 full-page engravings in the text and 2 other small text engravings, woodcut headpiece and initials. (Small clean tears at folds of a folding plate, occasional soiling, some spotting, index leaves with small tears, three touching a few letters on D1, E1 and E6.) 20th-century half brown morocco, spine gilt, marbled edges (corners lightly bumped). Provenance: D.M. (18th-century Venetian inscription). FIRST EDITION of Redi's most influential book, which by remarkably simple experiments disproved the belief, dating back to Aristotle, that insects, especially carrion-eating flys, are spontaneously generated in dead creatures. ‘Using four flasks, he filled two each with pieces of meat, corked two and left two open. Flies gathered within the second [pair] and the contents became wormy, the first putrid, but not wormy. He stated, 'thus the flesh of dead animals cannot engender worms unless the eggs of the living be deposited within' (Dibner). Redi ‘observed the egg-producing apparatus in insects and he also used the microscope to good advantage in observing the morphological elements characteristic of the eggs of each species’ (DSB). The attractive engraved plates, drawn from Redi's careful observations, depict a variety of insects in anatomical detail as well as their larvae and eggs. With the rare 29th numbered plate. Dibner, Heralds of Science 188; Grolier/Horblit 88; Nissen ZBI 3319; NLM/Krivatsy 9448; Norman 1812; Prandi 7.
REDI, Francesco (1626-1697/98). Esperienze intorno alla generazione degli' insetti... scitte in una lettera all' illustrissimo signor Carlo Dati. Florence: All'Insegna della Stella, 1668.
REDI, Francesco (1626-1697/98). Esperienze intorno alla generazione degli' insetti... scitte in una lettera all' illustrissimo signor Carlo Dati. Florence: All'Insegna della Stella, 1668. 4° (235 x 168mm). Half-title, title-page in red and black with engraved emblem of the Accademia della Crusca, proverb in Arabic, 6 full-page unnumbered engravings, 29 numbered engraved plates of which 3 folding, 3 full-page engravings in the text and 2 other small text engravings, woodcut headpiece and initials. (Small clean tears at folds of a folding plate, occasional soiling, some spotting, index leaves with small tears, three touching a few letters on D1, E1 and E6.) 20th-century half brown morocco, spine gilt, marbled edges (corners lightly bumped). Provenance: D.M. (18th-century Venetian inscription). FIRST EDITION of Redi's most influential book, which by remarkably simple experiments disproved the belief, dating back to Aristotle, that insects, especially carrion-eating flys, are spontaneously generated in dead creatures. ‘Using four flasks, he filled two each with pieces of meat, corked two and left two open. Flies gathered within the second [pair] and the contents became wormy, the first putrid, but not wormy. He stated, 'thus the flesh of dead animals cannot engender worms unless the eggs of the living be deposited within' (Dibner). Redi ‘observed the egg-producing apparatus in insects and he also used the microscope to good advantage in observing the morphological elements characteristic of the eggs of each species’ (DSB). The attractive engraved plates, drawn from Redi's careful observations, depict a variety of insects in anatomical detail as well as their larvae and eggs. With the rare 29th numbered plate. Dibner, Heralds of Science 188; Grolier/Horblit 88; Nissen ZBI 3319; NLM/Krivatsy 9448; Norman 1812; Prandi 7.
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