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Fig 4. Selected Sketches from Malpighi's Works showing Stages in the Development of the Chick (1672).
by Atti. From descriptions of his personal appearance, it is probably a better likeness than the handsome idealized portrait painted by Tabor, and presented by Malpighi to the Royal Society of London.[1]
Fig. 4 shows a few selected figures from the various plates of his embryological treatises, to compare with those of Wolff.
While Harvey taught the gradual formation of parts, Malpighi, from his own observations, supposed the rudiments of the embryo to
- ↑ For a reproduction of that portrait see Pop. Sci. Mo., Vol. LVIIL, 1901, p. 563.
