New experiments and observations, relating to the generation of plants: occasion'd by a letter ... in the Philosophical Transactions, by Patrick Blair. Together with an account of the extraordinary vegetation of peaches, abricots, nectarines, plums, cherries, figs, vines, goosberries, currans, &c, as they were artificially cultivated this spring 1724 / Richard Bradley.

  • Richard Bradley
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1724
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Credit: New experiments and observations, relating to the generation of plants: occasion'd by a letter ... in the Philosophical Transactions, by Patrick Blair. Together with an account of the extraordinary vegetation of peaches, abricots, nectarines, plums, cherries, figs, vines, goosberries, currans, &c, as they were artificially cultivated this spring 1724 / Richard Bradley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cukies in the Generation of Animals he explain’d : For as Nature is harmonious in all her Works, fo Difcoveries made in the Vegetable Kingdom may oftentimes ex¬ plain Difficulties in the Animal Kingdom, as well as the Circulation of the Blood in Animals has indicated to us, that there is a Circulation of Sap in Plants; or that there being a Mode of Generating among all Animals, has inform’d us that there mull be fomething analogous to it among Plants. For the Reader’s better underftanding of this Argument, it will be neceilary firft to fet down the mod receiv’d Opinion concerning Generation in general, which is, That it is abfolutely neceflary that fome of the .Male Seed be receiv’d into the Uterus of the Female, in fuch a manner as to reach the Ovum, and even lodge itfelf in that Egg, before the Female can become pregnant ; and again, it is no lefs certain, that the Seed of all Animals in Health abound with living Animalcula, fome one of which, when receiv’d into the Egg as its proper Nidus, becomes in due time a perfect Animal according to its Kind. Thefe Animalcula are ealily dif- coverd by good Microfcopes; and that fome of the Semen which abounds with thefe Animalcules does pafs into the Egg it!elf, is evident from the Qbfervations one makes
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