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53 FOLIO PLATES. The Book of Nature; or, The History of Insects: Reduced to Distinct Classes, Confirmed by Particular Instances, Displayed in the Anatomical Analysis of Many Species, and Illustrated with Copper-plates. Including the Generation of the Frog, the History of the Ephemerus, the Changes of Flies, Butterflies, and Beetles; with the Original Discovery of the Milk-Vessels of the Cuttle-Fish, and Many Other Curious Particulars. By John Swammerdam, M.D. With the Life of the Author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin Original Edition, by Thomas Flloyd. Revised and Improved by Notes from Reaumur and Others, by John Hill, M.D.

53 FOLIO PLATES. The Book of Nature; or, The History of Insects: Reduced to Distinct Classes, Confirmed by Particular Instances, Displayed in the Anatomical Analysis of Many Species, and Illustrated with Copper-plates. Including the Generation of the Frog, the History of the Ephemerus, the Changes of Flies, Butterflies, and Beetles; with the Original Discovery of the Milk-Vessels of the Cuttle-Fish, and Many Other Curious Particulars. By John Swammerdam, M.D. With the Life of the Author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin Original Edition, by Thomas Flloyd. Revised and Improved by Notes from Reaumur and Others, by John Hill, M.D. by Swammerdam, Johannes

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53 FOLIO PLATES. The Book of Nature; or, The History of Insects: Reduced to Distinct Classes, Confirmed by Particular Instances, Displayed in the Anatomical Analysis of Many Species, and Illustrated with Copper-plates. Including the Generation of the Frog, the History of the Ephemerus, the Changes of Flies, Butterflies, and Beetles; with the Original Discovery of the Milk-Vessels of the Cuttle-Fish, and Many Other Curious Particulars. By John Swammerdam, M.D. With the Life of the Author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin Original Edition, by Thomas Flloyd. Revised and Improved by Notes from Reaumur and Others, by John Hill, M.D.
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Swammerdam, Johannes
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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The Book of Nature; or, The History of Insects: Reduced to Distinct Classes, Confirmed by Particular Instances, Displayed in the Anatomical Analysis of Many Species, and Illustrated with Copper-plates. Including the Generation of the Frog, the History of the Ephemerus, the Changes of Flies, Butterflies, and Beetles; with the Original Discovery of the Milk-Vessels of the Cuttle-Fish, and Many Other Curious Particulars. By John Swammerdam, M.D. With the Life of the Author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin Original Edition, by Thomas Flloyd. Revised and Improved by Notes from Reaumur and Others, by John Hill, M.D. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH 53 LARGE ENGRAVED PLATES, SWAMMERDAM'S FINE STUDIES DISPROVED ARISTOTLE'S CLAIMS THAT INSECTS LACK INTERNAL ANATOMY. 25x41 cm folio hardcover, recent 3/4 leather binding, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands, gilt titles, new endpapers, xx[viii,]236,153,lxiii[12]p,53 engraved plates. Light wear to cover edges, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down, scattered light foxing, light browning to page edges, fine impressions of the plates, each with small institutional library stamp. JOHANNES SWAMMERDAM (1637 – 1680) was a Dutch biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various phases during the life of an insect are different forms of the same animal. As part of his anatomical research, he carried out experiments on muscle contraction. In 1658, he was the first to observe and describe red blood cells. He was one of the first people to use the microscope in dissections, and his techniques remained useful for hundreds of years.Despite his father's wish that he should study theology Swammerdam started to study medicine in 1661 at the University of Leiden. In 1663 Swammerdam moved to France to continue his studies. 1665 he returned to the Dutch Republic and joined a group of physicians who performed dissections and published their findings. While studying medicine Swammerdam had started to dissect insects and after qualifying as a doctor, he focused on them. His father pressured him to earn a living, but Swammerdam persevered and in late 1669 published Historia insectorum generalis (The General History of Insects, or General Treatise on little Bloodless Animals). The treatise summarized his study of insects he had collected in France and around Amsterdam. He countered the prevailing Aristotelian notion that insects were imperfect animals that lacked internal anatomy. Following the publication his father withdrew all financial support. As a result, Swammerdam was forced to practice medicine to finance his own research. Having studied the reproductive organs of men and women at university he set out to study the generation of insects. Inside a caterpillar the limbs and wings of the butterfly could be seen (now called the imaginal discs). When Swammerdam published The General History of Insects he not only did away with the idea that insects lacked internal anatomy but also attacked the Christian notion that insects originated from spontaneous generation. His religious crisis only interrupted his scientific research briefly and until his premature death aged 43, he worked on what was to become his main work. It remained unpublished when he died in 1680 and was published as Bybel der natuure posthumously in 1737 by the Leiden University professor Herman Boerhaave. Convinced that all insects were worth studying, Swammerdam had compiled an epic treatise on as many insects as he could, using the microscope and dissection. Swammerdam's Historia insectorum generalis was widely known and applauded before he died. Two years after his death in 1680 it was translated into French and in 1685 it was translated into Latin. An English translation of his entomological works by T. Floyd was published in 1758 (offered here).

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