[BALNEOLOGY / HELMINTOLOGY].
Padua, Giovanni Battista Conzatti, 1758.
Dissertationes tres. De Aponi thermis, de nonnullis insectis terrestribus, & zoophytis marinis, & de vermium terrae reproductione, atque Taenia Canis.
First edition. Bound last is Vandelli’s dissertation is on worms. Although it is now commonplace to dissect the earthworm in school biology classes, in 1758 this subject had not yet been sufficiently studied in laboratories. Vandelli was an early student of the lowly worm. The first of the three monographs..... More