LICETI, Fortunio

De ortu animae humanae libri tres.

Genoa, Giuseppe Pavoni, 1602 4to (224 x 145 mm), pp [xvi] 429 [33], woodcut device on titlepage andthe peacock device at end; two small wormholes in outer blank margins not affecting text, small wormtrack in last few leaves touching a few letters of index, a very good, crisp copy in contemporary limp vellum, spine repaired. £1850 First edition of Licetiís treatise on human embryology, his first published work of a total of seventy-seven. This work expounds a traditional Aristotelian doctrine of generation and embryological development. ëHieronymus Capivaccius, F. Licetius, J. Costaeus and V. Cardelinus, who wrote in 1608, were the last true supporters of the ancient theories, such as that the male embryo was twice as hot and developed twice as quickly as the femaleí (Needham, History of embryology p 114). This work achieved an instant reputation for its author, who was only twenty-five and already Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at Pisa.Liceti wrote on a variety of topics but had a lifelong interest in embryology. In 1616 he wrote a dissertation on intra-uterine life and changes, De perfecta constitutione hominis in utero, and was the author of the first and most popular treatise on teratology ever published, his De monstrorum, also published in 1616.Krivatsy 6964; NUC: DNLM PPC; OCLC adds McGill, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and University of Missouri

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