Harvey, William, 1578-1657. Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam De Partu: de Membranis ac humoribus Uteri: & de Conceptione. Autore Guilielmo Harveo Anglo, in Collegio Medicorum Londinensium Anatomes & Chirurgiciae Professore.Heirs no.436. :" After the publication of 'the motu cordis, Harvey turned his attention to the study of generation. Even if Harvey had not discovered the circulation of the blood, his remarkable work on embryology would have placed him in the front ranks of biological scientists. Without benefit of the compound microscope, his work was necessarily limited; nevertheless, nothing comparable had been done since Aristotle. His disbelieved the previous-held doctrine of 'preformation' of the fetus, maintaining instead that it proceeds from the ovum by gradual building up of its parts. Always slow to publisize his findings, Harvey was only after some years persuaded by his friend Sir George Ent, to put them into print. The first edition was published in London in 1651, followed by three Amsterdam editions of the same year. This Elzevir edition is believed to be the first of the two other editions. (The others were printed at Janssonius and Ravesteyn). Keynes no 36. Engraved title printed from the same plate as in no.35, but with the imprint Amstelodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1651. See note no. 35 ;' This edition was printed by Elzevir at Amsterdam and provided with two forms of engraved title-page for the English and continental markets respectively. This is the Dutch version. THIS FIRST DUTCH EDITION NOT IN BIBL. MEDICA. NEERLANDICA. (B.M.N.). Heirs mentioned the variant edition with other imprint on titelp. See at lenght Needham "A history of Embryology", p. 133 - 153. EUR 1,400.00
