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Embryology. MAUPERTUIS. Venus Physique.
Embryology. MAUPERTUIS. Venus Physique.
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MAUPERTUIS, Pierre-Louis Moreau de. Venus Physique. Geneve, S. Cailler, 178016mo, 127x71 mm, legatura in piena pelle. Titolo e fregi in oro al dorso. Tagli rossi.La pregevole e famosa opera di Maupertuis aprì la strada alla genetica e alla embriologia moderne con originali ricerche sull'origine e la generazione della specie umana. In essa il grande scienziato combatté la dottrina della preformazione dell'embrione, all'epoca correntemente accettata, e stabilì l'eguale influenza del padre e della madre nell'ereditarietà, facendosi al contempo difensore della teoria epigenetica per cui le cellule embrionali si differenziano in successivi stadi di sviluppo. Non pochi, nell'opera, le straordinarie teorie solo successivamente sviluppate da Darwin e da Mendel. "According to Glass, Maupertuis's theories of biparental heredity and epigenesis substantially anticipated those of Darwin, Mendel and de Vries nearly a century and a half later" (Norman). "Il développa dans ce livre sa théorie, que dans la liqueur séminale, composée d'un infini de parties... chaque partie fournit ses germes" (Olschki, Choix, VII, n. 9070). L'opera contiene anche una nota e singolare dissertazione, già edita a sé nel 1744, sull'origine dei "negri" e dei "negri bianchi" "Dissertation Physique a l'occasion du Negre Blanc".
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16mo, 127x71 mm, full leather binding. Gilt titles and ornaments, red edges.
The valuable and famous work of Maupertuis paved the way for modern genetics and embryology with original research on the origin and generation of the human species. In it the great scientist fought the doctrine of preformation of the embryo, currently accepted at the time, and established the equal influence of father and mother in heredity, while defending the epigenetic theory that embryonic cells differ in subsequent stages of development. Not a few, in the work, the extraordinary theories only subsequently developed by Darwin and Mendel: “According to Glass, Maupertuis's theories of biparental heredity and epigenesis substantially anticipated those of Darwin, Mendel and de Vries nearly a century and a half later" (Norman). "Il développa dans ce livre sa théorie, que dans la liqueur séminale, composée d'un infini de parties... chaque partie fournit ses germes" (Olschki, Choix, VII, n. 9070). The work also contains a well-known and singular dissertation, already published by itself in 1744, on the origin of the "blacks" and "white blacks".
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