Lot 1612 Francesco Redi. Osservazioni intorno alle …

Osservazioni intorno alle vipere scritte in una lettera a Lorenzo Magalotti. Con: Lettera sopra alcune opposizioni fatte alle sue Osservazioni intorno alle vipere. Napoli, nella stamperia di Giacomo Raillard, 1687. 5 Bll., 1 w. Bl., 240 S. Prgt. d. Zt. (etwas berieben und fleckig).

Zoologie - Herpetologie - Ophiologie

Naturwissenschaften – Bencini, Camilla. "L'inizio del viaggio della conoscenza: Francesco Redi e le Osservazioni intorno alle vipere (1664)." In: Contemplare/abitare: la natura nella letteratura italiana. Atti del XXVI Congresso dell'ADI, Napoli, 14.-16. September 2023. Rom: ADI editore, 2025. - Neapolitanische Sammelausgabe der naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften Redis, enthält den erneut gedruckten Text seiner 1664 erstmals erschienenen, für die Geschichte der experimentellen Toxikologie grundlegenden Osservazioni intorno alle vipere. Die Ausgabe folgt auf die vom Autor revidierte Florentiner Ausgabe von 1686 und vereinigt die Schrift mit Redis Erwiderung auf die gegen seine Vipernexperimente erhobenen Einwände sowie weiteren experimentellen Traktaten. - Seltene spätere Ausgabe von Francesco Redis grundlegender Schrift zur Erforschung des Schlangengifts. Der toskanische Arzt, Naturforscher und Hofgelehrte gilt als einer der Wegbereiter der experimentellen Biologie und Toxikologie. In den erstmals 1664 erschienenen Osservazioni widersprach er überlieferten Vorstellungen zur Giftwirkung von Vipern und überprüfte diese systematisch durch kontrollierte Versuche. Redi zeigte unter anderem, dass das Gift nicht durch bloßes Verschlucken wirksam wird, sondern seinen schädlichen Effekt erst bei direktem Eintritt in die Blutbahn beziehungsweise in verletztes Gewebe entfaltet. Dabei: Francesco Redi nobilis Aretini, Experimenta circa res diversas naturales, speciatim illas, quae ex Indiis adferuntur. Ex Italico Latinitate donata. Amsterdam, Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1675. Mit 14 von 17 Tafeln. Erste lateinische Ausgabe der 1671 in Florenz erschienenen italienischen Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali. Der Band macht Redis empirisch begründete naturwissenschaftliche Forschungen einem europäischen Lesepublikum zugänglich. Francesco Redi, Arzt, Hofgelehrter der Medici und einer der prägenden Vertreter der experimentellen Naturforschung des 17. Jahrhunderts, behandelt hier insbesondere naturkundliche Beobachtungen und Experimente zu Tieren, Giften, Schlangen und aus Indien eingeführten Naturalia. - Teils etwas gebräunt. Selten.

Natural Sciences – Zoology. - Herpetology. - Ophiology. - Neapolitan collected edition of Redi's natural-scientific writings, including a reprint of his Osservazioni intorno alle vipere, first published in 1664 and fundamental to the history of experimental toxicology. This edition follows the Florentine edition of 1686, revised by the author, and combines the treatise with Redi's reply to objections raised against his experiments on vipers, as well as with further experimental tracts. Rare later edition of Francesco Redi's seminal work on the investigation of snake venom. The Tuscan physician, naturalist, and court scholar is regarded as one of the pioneers of experimental biology and toxicology. In the Osservazioni, first published in 1664, he challenged traditional notions concerning the action of viper venom and tested them systematically through controlled experiments. Among other findings, Redi demonstrated that the venom is not effective when merely swallowed, but exerts its harmful effect only upon direct entry into the bloodstream or into injured tissue. With: Francesco Redi, Francisci Redi nobilis Aretini, Experimenta circa res diversas naturales, speciatim illas, quae ex Indiis adferuntur. Ex Italico Latinitate donata. Amsterdam, Sumptibus Andreae Frisii, 1675. With 14 of 17 plates. First Latin edition of the Italian Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali, published in Florence in 1671. The volume made Redi's empirically based scientific investigations accessible to a European readership. Redi-physician, Medici court scholar, and one of the leading representatives of seventeenth-century experimental natural science-deals here chiefly with natural-historical observations and experiments concerning animals, poisons, snakes, and natural specimens imported from the Indies. Somewhat browned in places. Rare.

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