Histoire generale des insectes. Ou l'on expose clairement la maniere lente & presqu'insensible de l'accroissement de leurs membres, & ou l'on decouvre evidemment l'erreur ou l'on tombe d'ordinaire au sujet de leur prétendué transformation par Jean Swammerdam .

Jan Swammerdam

Published by Utrecht, Chez G. de Walcheren, 1682

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Petit in-4°, (8)-215 pages, un tableau dépliant et 12 planches (SUR 13 : MANQUE LA PLANCHE TREIZE) - - Veau de l'époque, traces d'usage. INCOMPLET D UNE PLANCHE - - - - Célèbre anatomiste hollandais, on trouve dans ses ouvrages des faits nouveaux et intéressants, particulièrement en ce qui concerne les insectes. Ses descriptions anatomiques, d'une étonnante précision, ont fait faire de grands progrès à la science, en détruisant un grand nombre d'erreurs accréditées et en apportant des notions aussi neuves qu'exactes. (Larousse XIXe). - - - - - - French edition of perhaps the most important work of the celebrated Dutch natural historian, Jan Swammerdam (1637-1689), translated from the first edition in the original Dutch (1669): Historia generalis ofte algemeene verhandeling der bloedloose dierkens. It describes and illustrates the slow and almost imperceptible growth of certain insects' limbs and the difference between this gradual growth and the metamorphoses of other insects. The work also contains a large folding table comparing the growth and the metamorphosis of different insect limbs. The drawings Swammerdam made for the engraved plates and the conclusions he drew were based on his own long and careful observations through the microscope. Swammerdam was one of the most important among the early scientists studying insect anatomy, in many respects even more important than Malpighi. He rejects arguments from his contemporaries to remove insects as subjects open to scientific study, by refuting the idea that insects lack internal anatomy, that they were originated by spontaneous generation and instead argues that they develop by metamorphosis. This work is an account of his scientific research on insects and many of his findings are still of great importance for modern biology. Seller Inventory # depbou510

Bibliographic Details

Title: Histoire generale des insectes. Ou l'on ...

Publisher: Utrecht, Chez G. de Walcheren

Publication Date: 1682

Binding: Couverture rigide

Condition: Bon

Edition: Edition originale