Pseudodoxia Epidemica - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1658 Excerpt: ... may unite, and return to their visible selves again. ' Whether the Chicken be made out of the whitezor that be not also its alimengis likewise very questionablezsince an umbilical veflel is derived unto it: Since after the formation and perfect shape of the Chicken, 'much of the white remaincth. ' Whether it be not made out of the grando, gallaiture. germ or tred of the egg, As, nature should effect this proother animals 5' and, even in greatest part is but the nutriment of that generaportionable unto it.._ A greater difficulty in the doctrine os eggs, is, how the sperm of the Cock prolificates and makes the oval conception fruitful, or how it at taineth unto 'every egg, since the vitellary or place of the yelk is very highzsince the ovary or part where the white iuvolveth it, is in the se forrctnation first beginneth. how the Grando or tredle, are but the poles G g and Of eme. ow in the Cicatricula ctor little pale circle. Hcns proceed from long or round ones, as many contcnd, experiment will easily frustrate. Surely breaking, and liveth while the plants bc consumed about it. And Whether the slory ofthe Remora be not unrcasonably amplifiedzwhcthcr that of Bcrnacles and Goo s-trecs be not too much enlarged z whether the common history of B-zcs will hold, aslargc accounts have delivered;whethcrthc brains of Cats be attended with such dcstructive ma' lignities, as Dioscarides and others put upon them. G g a LWhc a them, and prick y places, where Serpents may least approach her? Whether Mice may be bred by putrifactxon as well as univocal pro. duction, as may be easily believed, if that receit to make Mice out of and 'look up toward heaven, according to that of the.i i; Hat onely Man-bathen erect. figure, and for to behold therefore; man weigh one hundred and...

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