Esperienze intorno alia generazione delle zanzare ... scritte in una lettera all' ... Francesco Redi

by Pietro Paulo da Sangallo

$5,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Florence: V. Vangelisti, 1679. First edition, extremely rare, author’s presentation copy, of Sangallo’s Experiments concerning the generation of mosquitoes. A young student of Francesco Redi, Sangallo defends the theory of his master expressed in his Experiments concerning the generation of insects 1668 against the supporters of spontaneous generation. Referred to as the

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