Author: REDI, FRANCESCO
Title: Osservazioni di Francesco redi Accademico della Crusca. Intorno agli animali viventi che si trovano negli animali viventi.
Description: Firenze, Per Piero Matini, all'insegna del Lion d'Oro, 1684. 4to. W. woodcut vignet on title and 26 engr. pls. (of which 2 folding). Contemp. full vellum. [n4, A - (VIII, 232 pp.). (Copies seem to exist w. a woodcut portr. frontisp., not present in this copy.). (Large paper, 18 x 24.5 cm.). DSB XI, 341 - 343: 'Redi's major parasitological treatise ...in the 1684 "Osservazioni" Redi also formulated the idea of an evolutionary cycle of parasitic worms.': Norman Coll. II, comp. 1816 and 1817 (First edition same year, same publisher): 'Redi was one of the first parasitologists. His "Osservazioni" described 108 parasites (two-thirds endopathic helminths, one-third exopathic parasitic insects and acarids), which Redi discovered via dissections of many types of animals (also described in detail), including leeches, earthworms, snails, slugs, cephalopods, lobsters, various fishes and an owl. Redi's studies of insect generation and parasitism were extended by his pupil Bonomo ... who in 1687 discovered the scabies mite and the acarid etiology of scabies.': Dino Prandi, Bibl. delle opere di Fr. Redi (1941), 26 - 28: Nissen, ZBI, 3323:G&M 2448.1: 'He demonstrated the reproductive organs of "Ascaris lumbricoides" and also ascaris eggs. The results of his experimenst appear in the above work, which also records his study and description of 108 different species.': Cole, Comparartive anatomy, p. 484: 'His most important anatomical work was published in 1684 ... Redi was a member of the Academia del cimento - the first organized scientific society.': Wellcome IV, p. 488: 'Revised edition with errata corrected. Woodcut device on t.p. where preceding ed. has an engraving.': Krivatsy, comp. 9458: Cole library, comp. item 570: Osler, comp. 3777: Peter Knoefel, Fr. Redi on vipers, i.l.c. 'As a pioneer parasitologist, Redi wrote the first treatise on the subject.': A fine wide-margined uncut copy of the corrected 1684 edition.

Keywords: parasitology medicine W25