W. Harvey, Exercitationes de generatione ani

From epigenesis to epigenetics : the genome in context / edited by Linda Van Speybroeck, Gertrudis Van de Vijver, and Dani De Waele.

Self-generation : biology, philosophy, and literature around 1800 / Helmut Müller-Sievers.

24 unnumbered leaves (first blank), 566, that is, 556 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves (last blank) : engr. frontispiece (portrait) ; (8vo)

Anatomical exercitations, concerning the generation of living creatures: to which are added particular discourses, of births, and of conceptions, etc / By William Harvey.

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From epigenesis to epigenetics : the genome in context / edited by Linda Van Speybroeck, Gertrudis Van de Vijver, and Dani De Waele.

Self-generation : biology, philosophy, and literature around 1800 / Helmut Müller-Sievers.

W. Harvey, Exercitationes de generatione ani

Anatomical exercitations, concerning the generation of living creatures: to which are added particular discourses, of births, and of conceptions, etc / By William Harvey.

W. Harvey, Exercitationes de generatione ani