Chick embryo
Date
1675
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694, Italian) , Physician
Object type
Library reference
54269
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 362mm
width (page): 231mm
height (plate): 306mm
width (plate): 207mm
width (page): 231mm
height (plate): 306mm
width (plate): 207mm
Subject
Description
Microscopic studies of foetus anatomy and development in an incubated chicken egg.
Figure 48 [upper left]: The foetus after 9 days of incubation.
Figure 49 [upper centre]: The top of the head, showing brain and eyes, after 9 days.
Figure 50 [upper centre]: The base of the brain after 9 days.
Figure 51 [upper right]: The foetus after 10 days of incubation.
Figure 52 [centre]: The foetus with umbilical cord and yoke after 12 days.
Figure 53 [centre]: The heart after 12 days.
Figure 54 [lower left]: The foetus in its egg after 14 days.
Figure 55 [lower centre]: A detail showing a blood vessel in a foetus 15 days after incubation.
Figure 56 [lower right]: The brain from the bottom and top after 15 days.
Inscribed ‘Tab. VI’ at the top of the page.
Table 6 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 48 [upper left]: The foetus after 9 days of incubation.
Figure 49 [upper centre]: The top of the head, showing brain and eyes, after 9 days.
Figure 50 [upper centre]: The base of the brain after 9 days.
Figure 51 [upper right]: The foetus after 10 days of incubation.
Figure 52 [centre]: The foetus with umbilical cord and yoke after 12 days.
Figure 53 [centre]: The heart after 12 days.
Figure 54 [lower left]: The foetus in its egg after 14 days.
Figure 55 [lower centre]: A detail showing a blood vessel in a foetus 15 days after incubation.
Figure 56 [lower right]: The brain from the bottom and top after 15 days.
Inscribed ‘Tab. VI’ at the top of the page.
Table 6 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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