VALLISNIERI, Antonio (1661-1730)

Considerazioni, ed esperienze intorno all generazione de' vermi ordinari del corpo umano, fatte da Antonio Vallisnieri, e da lui scritte al reverendissimo padre D. Antonio Borromeo

Padua: nella stamperia del seminario, 1710.
4to: a6 A--K8, 86 leaves, pp. [12] 160. Small woodcut decoration on title. Plates: 4 etched folding plates: numbered Tavola prima--quarta. Leaf size and condition: 250 x 185mm, untrimmed, a fine fresh copy. Binding: Contemporary carta rustica, tears across spine but a very well preserved copy. Provenance and annotation: Early owner's armorial stamp on title. References: Wellcome V, p. 328; Blake p. 468; Waller 9790; Nissen 4219.
First edition.
§ The first monograph on human parasitic worms. Vallisnieri, who had been a pupil of Malpighi in Bologna, played a decisive role in the spontaneous generation debate, confirming Redi's demonstration of the origin of insects from eggs. Here Vallisnieri challenged the view that intestinal worms metamorphosed from earthworms or fruit worms and enforced his own opinion of 'a perpetual law of nature that like always generates like' (see Giuseppe Montalenti, DSB XIII, 563b).

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