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A General History of Insects

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  • Swammerdam, Jan
    In Jan Swammerdam

    …entomological research (1667–73), he completed A General History of Insects, popularly recognized as a major work at the time, and the Bible of Nature, one of the finest collections of microscopical observations ever published. In these works he corrected the physiologist Marcello Malpighi’s conceptions of the insect brain and nervous…

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