Incubated chicken egg
Date
1672
Creator
Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694, Italian) , Physician
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p154r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 309mm
width (page): 220mm
width (page): 220mm
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Description
Microscopic studies of the stages of development of the foetus in an incubated chicken egg, including between 18 and 24 hours after incubation [figures 8-15], between 24 and 30 hours after [figures 16-17], between 30 and 36 hours after [figures 18-19], and between 36 and 40 hours after [figures 20-21].
Inscribed ‘Tab. II’ at the top of the page.
Page 154 from MS/103/1, later published as Table II in the appendix to Marcello Malpighi’s Anatome plantarum, ‘De ovo incubato’.
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.
Inscribed ‘Tab. II’ at the top of the page.
Page 154 from MS/103/1, later published as Table II in the appendix to Marcello Malpighi’s Anatome plantarum, ‘De ovo incubato’.
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.
Object history
In October of 1762 Malpighi sent the Royal Society an extensive account [MS/103/1] of the development of the chick in an egg as a follow up to his earlier Dissertatio Epistolica de Formatione Pulli in Ovo (1673) on the same subject.
It was read at the Royal Society on 22 January 1673 [JBO/5, pp.6], ordered for printing two years later on 17 June 1675 [CMO/1/221], and published as the appendix to Malpighi’s Anatome Plantarum (1675), along with seven illustrative plates.
It was read at the Royal Society on 22 January 1673 [JBO/5, pp.6], ordered for printing two years later on 17 June 1675 [CMO/1/221], and published as the appendix to Malpighi’s Anatome Plantarum (1675), along with seven illustrative plates.
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Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694, Italian) , Physician
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