Incubated chicken egg
Date
1672
Creator
Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694, Italian) , Physician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p159r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 311mm
width (page): 221mm
width (page): 221mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Microscopic studies of foetus anatomy and development in an incubated chicken egg.
Figure 57 [upper left]: The foetus with umbilical cord after 19 days of incubation.
Figure 58 [upper right]: The fully grown foetus after 20 days.
Figure 59 [lower right]: The end of the intestines.
Figure 60 [lower left]: The chick outside of its shell.
Figure 61 [centre]: The vessel between the yoke, the chick and its cloacum.
Inscribed ‘Tab. VII’ at the top of the page.
Page 159 from MS/103/1, later published as Table VII 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.
Figure 57 [upper left]: The foetus with umbilical cord after 19 days of incubation.
Figure 58 [upper right]: The fully grown foetus after 20 days.
Figure 59 [lower right]: The end of the intestines.
Figure 60 [lower left]: The chick outside of its shell.
Figure 61 [centre]: The vessel between the yoke, the chick and its cloacum.
Inscribed ‘Tab. VII’ at the top of the page.
Page 159 from MS/103/1, later published as Table VII 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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