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Buonanni, Filippo (1638-1723) Observationes circa Viventia . Rome: Hercules, 1691. First edition, quarto, engraved title to second part, and sixty-nine engraved plates, some folding, clean, bound in contemporary speckled calf, gold tooled spine, leather consolidator applied to the spine in the last century. Buonanni, a Jesuit scientist, and student of Athanasius Kircher, records microscopic pollination for the first time in this work, although he continued to argue against Redi, in favor of spontaneous generation.


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Date:
2012-11-18