The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ... Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion.… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations. — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears.… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
“I have destroyed almost the whole race of frogs, which does not happen in that savage Batrachomyomachia of Homer r. For in the anatomy… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
The seed is the fetus, in other words, a true plant with its parts (that is, its leaves, of which there are usually two,… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
“Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image