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    Developmental stages of chicken embryo

    Date
    1672
    Creator
    Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694, Italian) , Physician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 333mm
    width (drawing): 213mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Illustrations showing various stages of the formation of a chicken embryo, printed as Table II in Marcello Malpighi's Dissertatio epistolica de formatione pulli in ovo (London, 1673).
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Italy
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